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.
—
Horace Sutton
Horace Sutton
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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Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2025
Aerial Global Community applied with the Tennessee Secretary of State on March 31, 2022, to register Aerial Recovery as an assumed name.
—Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
In the first season, tThe drama based on James Patterson’s best-selling novel series saw Cross pursue a narcissistic serial killer played by Ryan Eggold and uncover Miss Nancy as an assumed stalker endangering his family.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
Getting confronted with gruesome, horrific imagery has, unfortunately, become an assumed risk when logging onto social media.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Assumed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assumed. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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