| 单词 | assumed |
| 释义 | assumed (once / 177 pages) adj When something is described as assumed, it's fake. An assumed name is made up, often to hide a true identity. If you're living under an assumed name, you've taken on a new, fictitious name to disguise yourself or simply to start over as a new person — to give yourself an assumed identity. An assumed facial expression is false, and an assumed address isn't your real one. The adjective assumed comes from the meaning of assume that's "take on or adopt, often falsely," from the Latin assumere, "to take up." WORD FAMILYassumed: assumedly+/assume: assumed, assumes, assuming, assumption, assumptive, re-assume/assuming: assumingly, unassuming/assumption: assumptions/re-assume: re-assuming/unassuming: unassumingly, unassumingness USAGE EXAMPLESThe news was devastating: I assumed a lifetime of “difference” and exclusion, all my aspirations for my child seemingly in tatters. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Another assumed on sight that he worked in the company cafeteria. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) The Russian president himself remains stubbornly popular despite his own widely assumed corruption. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) adj adopted in order to deceive an assumed name an assumed cheerfulness Syn false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham counterfeit, imitative not genuine; imitating something superior |
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