adjective

• 1(of a manner or identity) taken on or adopted, sometimes falsely.

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  • ‘a man living under an assumed name’

  Synonyms

  false, fictitious, invented, made-up, concocted, feigned, pretended, faked, fake, bogus, sham, spurious, counterfeit, pseudo, make-believe, improvised, affected, adopted

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• 2Adopted as a basis of reasoning; expected.

  ‘the assumed result of the election’

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  • ‘the assumed rate of return’