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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

not true, that which is pretended;

e.g. He possessed an assumed air of confidence as he passed his opponent.

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Opposite Words

Abandoned

Actual

Authentic

Challenged

Concrete

Confirmed

Determined

Easy

Effective

Effortless

Established

Existent

Extemporaneous

Facto

Factual

Genuine

Hidden

Honest

Implausible

Impossible

Improbable

Impromptu

Impulsive

Inapparent

Inconceivable

Instinctive

Real

Real-life

Real-world

Realistic

Resigned

Right

Sincere

Smooth

True

Unconscious

Unlikely

Unprompted

Unrehearsed

Unsaid

Unstudied

Valid

Very

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Related Words

Academic

Academically

Advanced

Alleged

Anticipated

Artful

Artificial

Attempted

Automatic

Backhand

Backhanded

Based

Bought

Broke

Broken

Calculated

Canned

Clear

Concealed

Conceivable

Conjectural

Conscious

Considered

Conventional

Counterfeit

Cracked

Cultivated

Cute

Deceptive

Deliberate

Delusive

Demonstrable

Distinct

Double

Double-faced

Empiric

Empirical

Empty

Enlisted

Esteemed

Exaggerated

External

Facile

Fake

Faked

Feigned

Felt

Forged

Genteel

Goody-goody

Grounded

Histrionic

Hokey

Hollow

Hung

Hypocritical

Hypothetical

Illusive

Illusory

Imaginary

Impersonal

Implicit

Inflexible

Insincere

Janus-faced

Jive

Labored

Left-handed

Likely

Lip

Manifest

Masked

Mealy

Mealymouthed

Mincing

Nominal

Obvious

Outward

Paper

Pat

Perceived

Phony

Plain

Plausible

Possible

Potential

Potentially

Premeditated

Probable

Professed

Pseudo

Purported

Put-on

Rested

Rigid

Saw

Scented

Smelt

So-called

Sought

Specious

Speculative

Stiff

Studied

Superficial

Supposable

Supposed

Sustainable

Theatrical

Theoretical

Thought

Titular

Tried

Two

Two-faced

Unauthentic

Unctuous

Unreal

Unrealistic

Verifiable

Visible

Wooden

Worked

Wrought

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