assumed

Adjective

Synonyms: false fictitious fictive pretended put on sham

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

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”Synonyms: false fictitious fictive pretended put on sham

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Assumed \As*sumed"\, a.

1.Supposed. [1913 Webster]

2.Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character. [1913 Webster]

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]