ASSUMED

adj. 1 appropriated, taken, usurped, expropriated, pre-empted, usurped, seized He functions in his assumed capacity as a judge 2 pretended, put on, sham, false, feigned, affected, counterfeit, simulated, spurious, bogus, fake; pseudonymous, made-up, Colloq phoney or US also phony She morosely stared at the floor in assumed contrition He wrote poetry under an assumed name. 3 taken, taken for granted, presumed, supposed, accepted, expected, presupposed; hypothetical, theoretical, suppositional The payment depends materially on the assumed rate of interest