1. Generally accepted or used
2. Generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; SYN. undisputed.
3. Generally approved or compelling recognition; SYN. recognized.
4. Widely accepted as true or worthy; SYN. received.
5. Widely or permanently accepted
1. Acquired as one's own by free choice; SYN. adoptive.
2. Having been taken into a specific relationship.
ETYM Latin adoptivus: cf. French adoptif.
Of parents and children; related by adoption.
Acquired as your own by free choice
1. Accepted as real or true without proof; SYN. assumptive, taken for granted.
2. Adopted in order to deceive; SYN. false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham.
3. Taken as one's right without justification; SYN. arrogated.
ETYM Latin assumptivus, from assumptus, from assumere.
Excessively forward; SYN. assuming, presumptuous.
Through adoption, in an adoptive manner
Hypothetically, theoretically, supposedly, assumedly, speculatively