- 2. Class, group, set, batch, lot, parcel, stock, store, collection, pack, package.
- 3. Variety of sorts, many kinds.
Assuage, v. a. Mitigate, moderate, appease, soothe, soften, mollify, pacify, compose, tranquillize, quiet, still, quell, allay, abate, temper, attemper, lessen, qualify, relieve, ease, dull, blunt, lull. See alleviate.
Assuagement, n. Mitigation, pacification, easing, abatement. See preceding verb, and Alleviation.
Assuasive, a. Soothing, assuaging, emollient, lenitive, lenient, mitigating, mitigative, mild, moderating, softening, mollifying, pacifying, composing, tranquillizing, quieting, stilling, quelling, allaying, abating, easeful, tempering, relieving, lulling.
Assume, v. a.
- 1. Take, undertake, take on, take upon one’s self, be willing to bear, become responsible for.
- 2. Affect, feign, counterfeit, simulate, pretend to, put on.
- 3. Arrogate, usurp, claim unduly, make unjust pretensions to.
- 4. Beg, suppose, presuppose, imply, consider as true, take for granted.
Assumed name. Alias.
Assuming, a.
- 1. Presuming, presumptuous, forward, audacious, bold, shameless, frontless, unblushing, brazen, brazen-
faced.
- 2. Arrogant, proud, lofty, haughty, supercilious, overbearing, overweening, conceited, consequential, self-
conceited, self-sufficient. See arrogant.
Assumption, n.
- 1. Assuming, taking, taking on, taking up, accepting, becoming responsible for.
- 2. Assuming, arrogating, usurpation.
- 3. Presumption, supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, postulate, theory.
- 4. Haughtiness, loftiness, superciliousness, lordliness, stateliness, conceit, pride, conceitedness, self-
conceit, self-importance, vain-glory, insolence, hauteur. See arrogance.