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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Assumed \As*sumed"\, a.
     1. Supposed.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed
        character.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Assume \As*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assumed; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Assuming.] [L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub +
     emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See Redeem.]
     1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and
        demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take
        unjustly.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
                                                    --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The god assumed his native form again. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a
        fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The consequences of assumed principles. --Whewell.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Ambition assuming the mask of religion. --Porteus.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Assume a virtue, if you have it not.  --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. To receive or adopt.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and
              lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: To arrogate; usurp; appropriate.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Assumed \As*sumed"\, a.
     1. Supposed.
  
     2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed
        character.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Assume \As*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assumed; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Assuming.] [L. assumere; ad + sumere to take; sub +
     emere to take, buy: cf. F. assumer. See Redeem.]
     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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  assumed
       adj 1: 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" [syn: assumptive, taken for granted(p)]
       2: taken as your right without justification; "was hearing
          evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated
          powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states"
          [syn: arrogated]
       3: 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" [syn: false, fictitious, fictive, pretended,
           put on, sham]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  assumed
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 υποτιθέμενος, δεδομένος
     2 απατηλός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  assumed
     a.
     used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.
     vb.
     (infl of en assume  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  assumed
     a.
     used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.
     vb.
     (infl of en assume  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  assumed
     a.
     used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.
     vb.
     (infl of en assume  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  assumed
     a.
     used in a manner intended to deceive; pretended; simulated.
     vb.
     (infl of en assume  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  assumed
     Englanti a.
     tekaista
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm a ssume d)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  assumed
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en assume ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb assume)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/
  افترض

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/ 
  измислен, присторен
  intended to deceive; fictitious

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/ 
  předstíraný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/ 
  domnělý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/ 
  předpokládaný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/
  angenommen, unterstellt, vermutet, ausgegangen
        "I/he/she assumed"  - ich/er/sie nahm an, ich/er/sie unterstellte, ich/er/sie vermutete, ich/er/sie ging davon aus
        "he/she has/had assumed"  - er/sie hat/hatte angenommen
        "It can be assumed that …"  - Es ist davon auszugehen, dass …
   see: assume, assuming, You can't go by that., start (out) from the assumption that …, If we start from the assumption that…, I acted on the assumption that …
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/
  vorausgesetzt, angenommen
     Synonym: expected
  
   see: assume sth., expect sth., assuming, expecting, assume that everyone knows sth., Let us assume …, I assume that these facts are known.
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/ 
  1. keksitty, teko-, valheellinen
  intended to deceive; fictitious
  2. oletettu, otaksuttu
  supposed or presumed

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/
  pretpostavljen, simuliran, zamišljen

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  assumed /ɐsjˈuːmd/
  1. tettetett
  2. feltételezett
  3. állítólagos
  4. hamis
  5. hipotetikus
  6. ál

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  assumed /əsuːmd/ 
  tariamas, išgalvotas, fiktyvus

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/əˈsumd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "assumed":
     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, embroidered,
     ersatz, expected, expropriated, factitious, fake, faked, false,
     falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, given, granted,
     hinted, hypocritical, hypothetical, illegitimate, illusory,
     imitation, implicated, implied, in hand, in process, in progress,
     in the works, indicated, inferred, insubstantial, intimated,
     involved, junky, made-up, make-believe, man-made, meant, mock,
     on the anvil, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, postulated,
     postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, presupposed,
     pretended, pseudo, put on, put-on, putative, quasi, queer, reputed,
     seized, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called,
     soi-disant, spurious, suggested, supposed, suppositional,
     supposititious, suppositive, synthetic, taken, taken for granted,
     theoretical, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic,
     under way, understood, undertaken, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal,
     warped
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 假装的,装的,假的;
  v. 假定,承担,霸占;
  vbl. 假定,承担,霸占;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 假装的,装的,假定的

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