1
: not true or real : deliberately pretended or feigned
an assumed cheerfulness
an assumed air of indifference
: false, fictitious
an assumed name
2
: taken for granted : supposed
the assumed reason for his absence
assumedly
adverb
The hotel has seven rentable rooms on the third floor, assumedly for those who need to render themselves supine after an attack on the elaborate fare.
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Horace Sutton
Horace Sutton
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Examples of assumed in a Sentence
an assumed connection between the two species that has yet to be confirmed by fossil findings
the salesclerk's assumed friendliness vanished as soon as I assured her I was just looking
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The Facebook page host did not think anything of the photos Walters had sent him and posted the assumed accomplishment on his major page.
—Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
The real Qiao Yan lives on the fringes of poverty in Myanmar and the assumed Qiao Yan becomes a famed actress in China.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
Plus, the icing on the baby cake is the middle name of Blues, which is the opposite of the assumed Plum since plum purple was Justin’s signature color as a teen.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2024
Scholars following Man the Hunter dogma relied on this belief in women's limited physical capacities and the assumed burden of pregnancy and lactation to argue that only men hunted.
—Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023
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Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
The real Qiao Yan lives on the fringes of poverty in Myanmar and the assumed Qiao Yan becomes a famed actress in China.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
Plus, the icing on the baby cake is the middle name of Blues, which is the opposite of the assumed Plum since plum purple was Justin’s signature color as a teen.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2024
Scholars following Man the Hunter dogma relied on this belief in women's limited physical capacities and the assumed burden of pregnancy and lactation to argue that only men hunted.
—Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023
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“Assumed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assumed. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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