Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by assumption.
- adjective Taken for granted; assumed.
- adjective Presumptuous; assuming.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims.
- adjective (Her.) originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Held as
true orvalid withoutevidence . - adjective
Forward orpresumptuous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective excessively forward
- adjective accepted as real or true without proof
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Examples
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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.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This kind of assumptive thinking is what leads to a person getting their head punched off by Jason in “Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan.”
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I think that this kind of assumptive journalism is a mistake.
Think Progress » Preteen magazine makes military recruiting pitch. 2006
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I think that this kind of assumptive journalism is a mistake.
Think Progress » Preteen magazine makes military recruiting pitch. 2006
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It's not that I hold drinking against anyone - if it works for you it works for you - it's the assumptive nature of the culture that bothers me.
One For The Table: Consumption Assumption One For The Table 2011
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It's not that I hold drinking against anyone - if it works for you it works for you - it's the assumptive nature of the culture that bothers me.
One For The Table: Consumption Assumption One For The Table 2011
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When an author or a publisher pays a blog tour company, there is assumptive coverage.
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Their strategy was bold and assumptive, and gave little credence to the governor's spiteful nature.
LaVar Young: NJ's Budget: A Political Game With Dire Consequences LaVar Young 2011
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If an author or a publisher pays a publicist — pure and simple — to promote a book and there is no assumptive coverage, that that seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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While the cyberwar industry makes for entertaining movies and books, they are dependent on the assumptive premise that western civilization will completely collapse after two to three days (or weeks) of life without the Internet, or the television, or power.
The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word assumptive
"Now, arms which a person has a right, with the approbation of his sovereign and of the heralds, to assume."
--Cent. Dict.
October 11, 2012