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Assumptive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Characterized by assumption.

adj. Taken for granted; assumed.

adj. Presumptuous; assuming.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Held as true or valid without evidence.

adj. Forward or presumptuous.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Capable of being assumed; assumed.

Marked or characterized by assumptions.

Now, arms which a person has a right, with the approbation of his sovereign and of the heralds, to assume.

Armorial bearings improperly assumed. [Rare in last use.] Also called arms of assumption.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. excessively forward

adj. accepted as real or true without proof

Word Usage

"But it is then called assumptive, when the fact cannot be proved by its own intrinsic evidence, but is defended by some argument brought from extraneous circumstances."

Equivalent

forward acknowledged

Cross Reference

assuming arrogant assumptive arms

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

suppository postulative presuppository