ASSUMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assuming mean? 

• ASSUMING (adjective)
  The adjective ASSUMING has 1 sense:

1. excessively forward

  Familiarity information: ASSUMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSUMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessively forward

Synonyms:

assuming; assumptive; presumptuous

Context example:

the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants

Similar:

forward (used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty)

 Context examples 

“Nothing's the matter, bless you, Master Davy dear!” she answered, assuming an air of sprightliness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you do the math, you only get an Emerald Years (as I call it) eight times in a lifetime, assuming you live to 96.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I answered him by assuming it: to refuse would, I felt, have been unwise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She wore an expression such as I had never seen before—such as I should have thought her incapable of assuming.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"He put his name down for three dances, and I suppose he's coming for them. What a bore!" said Meg, assuming a languid air which amused Laurie immensely.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I believe our evenings are rather returned to what they were, than assuming a new character.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Assuming that 100 percent of the second growth persists and regenerates over 40 years, carbon storage capacity doubles in young second growth and increases by 120 percent in intermediate age forests.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“How many have you in your train?” asked the prince, assuming a graver mien.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The date (and time) the subject has been registered to the study assuming they have finished screening and have been found eligible.

(Performed Study Subject Milestone Registration Date, NCI Thesaurus)