assumptive
Based on presumption
Assumptive means based on assumption rather than evidence or confirmation.
An assumptive close in sales presumes the customer has already decided to buy: Let me get your shipping address.
More broadly, assumptive describes behavior that takes things for granted, sometimes presumptuously: His assumptive tone irritated everyone in the meeting.
Accepted as already true
- hypotheticalAssumed but unproven
- conjecturalBased on incomplete evidence
- speculativeBased on conjecture
- suppositionalBased on assumption
premised · postulated · inferred · deduced · extrapolated · implied · taken-for-granted · axiomatic
Disdainfully proud
- overbearingArrogantly dominating in manner
- imperiousArrogantly authoritative
- high-handedDomineering without regard for others
- patronizingTreating someone as inferior
supercilious · self-important · pompous · conceited · smug · domineering · overconfident · disdainful
Awaiting something foreseen
- preemptiveActing to forestall
- projectiveRelating to mapping transformations
- forward-lookingOriented toward the future
- predictiveRelating to forecasts
prognostic · proactive · preconceived · predetermined · advance · prophetic · forecasting
presupposed
Accepted as already true
- hypotheticalAssumed but unproven
- conjecturalBased on incomplete evidence
- speculativeBased on conjecture
suppositional · premised · postulated · inferred · deduced · extrapolated · implied · taken-for-granted · axiomatic · given
haughty
Disdainfully proud
- overbearingArrogantly dominating in manner
- imperiousArrogantly authoritative
- high-handedDomineering without regard for others
patronizing · supercilious · self-important · pompous · conceited · smug · domineering · overconfident · disdainful · condescending
expectant
Awaiting something foreseen
- preemptiveActing to forestall
- projectiveRelating to mapping transformations
- forward-lookingOriented toward the future
predictive · prognostic · proactive · preconceived · predetermined · advance · prophetic · forecasting
- verb moodsindicative, subjunctive, imperative, conditional, potential
- evidentialshearsay, inferential, firsthand, secondhand, direct evidence
assumptiveproven
Established as fact
demonstrated · evidenced · verified · substantiated · confirmed
assumptiveunassuming
Not making claims
humble · modest · unpretentious · deferential · meek
- false assumptionIncorrect foundational belief
- wrong assumptionBelief that proves false
- working assumptions
- assumption of riskLegal consent to danger
- questioning assumptionsExamining unexamined beliefs
- erroneous assumptionIncorrect belief underlying reasoning