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

“The kind of losses that we grieve over are the ones that disrupt that assumptive world, which can explain feelings of grief about the death of the Queen,” she says.

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

The gaudy trappings of assumptive state Drop at the voice of nature to the earth, Before thy feet—I cannot force myself To hate thee, to renounce thee; yet—Covilla!

From Count Julian by Landor, Walter Savage