Word Meanings - ASSUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. The god assumed his native form again. Pope. 2. To take for granted, or

Additional info about word: ASSUME

1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. The god assumed his native form again. Pope. 2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. The consequences of assumed principles. Whewell. 3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. Ambition assuming the mask of religion. Porteus. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Shak. 4. To receive or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSUME)

• Adopt
• Assume
• select
• affiliate
• take
• elect
• arrogate
• choose
• endorse
• avow
• appropriate
• Affect
• Like
• desire
• favor
• seek
• assume
• move
• influence
• concern
• interest
• feign
• pretend
• Arrogate
• Claim
• vindicate
• assert
• demand
• Domineer
• Lord
• tyrannize
• usurp
• Doll
• wear

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASSUME)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

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• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• ASSERT
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• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• ASSERTORY
  Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
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• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.