Assumptive: alternatives and connections

stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have…

Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marsh…

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant cl…

Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; a…

The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to.

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance.

By way of assumption.

By assumption.

That which is assumed; an assumption.

the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assu…

a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it

To give reasons for doubting or opposing an idea.

One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.

a physical theory of relativity based on the assumption that the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant and the assumption that the…

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment

Not called for by the circumstances; without reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous as…