Assumptions

Meaning of Assumptions

plural noun
  1. a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.
    they made certain assumptions about the market
    we're working on the assumption that the time of death was after midnight
  2. the action of taking on power or responsibility.
    the assumption of an active role in regional settlements
  3. the reception of the Virgin Mary bodily into heaven. This was formally declared a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in 1950.
  4. arrogance or presumption.

Middle English (in assumption (sense 3)): from Old French asompsion or Latin assumptio(n- ), from the verb assumere (see assume).

Information about Assumptions

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of Assumptions is: Assumption.
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Hyphenation of Assumptions

As-sump-tions

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • Assumptions is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Assumptions synonyms

Meaning a belief held without proof or certain knowledge; an assumption or hypothesis:

supposition

Meaning a thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action:

presupposition

Meaning an idea that is taken to be true on the basis of probability:

presumption

Meaning an assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory:

premise

Meaning something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion:

belief

Meaning a strong belief that something will happen or be the case:

expectation

Meaning an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information:

conjecture

Meaning the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence:

speculation

Meaning a supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it:

surmise

Meaning an estimate or conclusion formed by guessing:

guess

Meaning a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained:

theory

Meaning a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation:

hypothesis

Meaning a suggestion or assumption of the existence, fact, or truth of something as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief:

postulation

Meaning a judgement or decision reached by reasoning:

conclusion

Meaning the inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle:

deduction

Meaning a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning:

inference

Meaning an idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind:

thought

Meaning a feeling or thought that something is possible, likely, or true:

suspicion

Meaning a conception of or belief about something:

notion

Meaning an idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence:

impression

Meaning a superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction:

fancy

Meaning the process or results of guessing:

guesswork

Meaning estimate or conclude (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct:

guessing

Meaning the action or process of calculating or estimating something:

reckoning

Meaning an estimate based on a mixture of guesswork and calculation:

guesstimate

Meaning the action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered:

acceptance

Meaning put (something heavy) over one's shoulder or shoulders to carry:

shouldering

Meaning feel or manipulate with the hands:

handling

Meaning having executive control or authority:

managing

Meaning make determined efforts to deal with (a problem or difficult task):

tackling

Meaning a formal pledge or promise to do something:

undertaking

Meaning the action of capturing someone or something using force:

seizure

Meaning a length of cord or rope used for fastening or tying:

seizing

Meaning the action or process of taking something:

taking

Meaning the action of appropriating something:

appropriation

Meaning take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission:

appropriating

Meaning officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes:

commandeering

Meaning the action by the state or an authority of taking property from its owner for public use or benefit:

expropriation

Meaning (of the state or an authority) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit:

expropriating

Meaning the action of taking or seizing someone's property with authority; seizure:

confiscation

Meaning take or seize (someone's property) with authority:

confiscating

Meaning an official order laying claim to the use of property or materials:

requisition

Meaning demand the use or supply of (something) by official order:

requisitioning

Meaning an incident or act of hijacking:

hijack

Meaning an act of unlawfully seizing an aircraft, vehicle, or ship while in transit; a hijack:

hijacking

Meaning forcibly pull (something) from a person's grasp:

wresting

Meaning take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force:

usurping

Meaning state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof:

claiming

Words that rhyme with Assumptions

ions, eccaleobions, excambions, gabions, symbions, Halcions, cions, coercions, epinicions, scions, suspicions, unsuspicions, accordions, collodions, diacodions, encheiridions, enchiridions, gammadions, melodions, pyramidions, rhipidions, stasidions, tordions, turdions, Legions, analogions, bioregions, contagions, euchologions, irreligions, legions, logions, regions, religions, subregions, tragions, trisagions, Malathions, antifashions, apocynthions, cushions, ethions, falchions, fashions, fauchions, faulchions, fenthions, fushions, gnathions, gumphions

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