Assumed
[adj] accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted"
[adj] adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
[adj] taken as your right without justification; "was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states"
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Synonyms
acknowledged, arrogated, assumptive, counterfeit, false, fictitious, fictive, imitative, pretended, put on, sham, taken, taken for granted(p)
Related Terms
accepted, accounted as, affected, alleged, apocryphal, artificial, assumptive, bastard, bogus, brummagem, chanced, colorable, colored, conjectured, counterfeit, counterfeited, deceptive, deemed, delusory, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroid