assumption | (noun) the act of taking possession of or power over something | Synonyms: laying claim |
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(noun) the act of assuming or taking for granted | - |
(noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: effrontery, presumption, presumptuousness |
(noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: supposal, supposition |
(noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: premise, premiss |
assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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(adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
consumption | (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: expenditure, using up |
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(noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake |
(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services |
(noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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(adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
(noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
presumption | (noun) a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming | - |
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(noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumptuousness |
(noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, precondition |
(noun) (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed | - |
presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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(adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
presumptively | (adverb) by reasonable assumption | Synonyms: presumably |
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presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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presumptuously | (adverb) in a presumptuous manner | - |
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presumptuousness | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumption |
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resumption | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: recommencement |
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subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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(noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
sump | (noun) a well or other hole in which water has collected | - |
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(noun) an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine | - |
(noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sink |
sumpsimus | (noun) a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression | - |
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sumpter | (noun) an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads | Synonyms: pack animal |
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sumptuary | (adjective) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior | - |
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sumptuosity | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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sumptuous | (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely |
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sumptuously | (adverb) in a sumptuous and opulent manner | Synonyms: opulently |
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sumptuousness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity |
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(noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, opulence |