assumptive

American  

[uh-suhmp-tiv] / əˈsʌmp tɪv /

adjective

1. taken for granted.

2. characterized by assumption.

   an assumptive statement.

3. presumptuous.

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Other Word Forms

• assumptively adverb
• nonassumptive adjective
• overassumptive adjective
• overassumptively adverb

Etymology

Origin of assumptive

1605–15; < Latin assūmptīvus, equivalent to assūmpt ( us ) (past participle) ( assumption ) + -īvus -ive

Example Sentences

She cites a theory called the assumptive world, which suggests that a person has strongly held and grounding assumptions about the world.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

I also can't help wishing that "Love, Victor" was bolder in playing with the audience's assumptive gaze.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2020

Until the jury is fully out on Oakland GM Billy Beane’s latest concoction, Mariners fans are advised to not be so assumptive about a 2018 playoff berth.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2018

He went on to speak of the 1950s, “Ozzie and Harriet,” when things seemed newer somehow and assumptive of progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2016

Thorpe liked the boy because he was open-hearted, free from affectation, assumptive of no superiority,—in short, because he was direct and sincere, although in a manner totally different from Thorpe's own directness and sincerity.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward