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Antonyms for assert
əˈsɜrtas·sert

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Wiktionary3.2 / 5 votes

  1. assertverb

    Synonyms:
    aver, asseverate, affirm

  2. assertverb

    To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

    he would often assert his beliefs to us

    Synonyms:
    asseverate, affirm, aver

  3. assertverb

    To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

    Synonyms:
    aver, affirm, asseverate

  4. assertverb

    To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

    The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

    Synonyms:
    affirm, aver, asseverate

  5. assertverb

    to make true; to make equal to 1.

    Synonyms:
    asseverate, aver, affirm

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. assert

    To allege is formally to state as true or capable of proof, but without proving. To adduce, literally to lead to, is to bring the evidence up to what has been alleged. Adduce is a secondary word; nothing can be adduced in evidence till something has been stated or alleged, which the evidence is to sustain. An alleged fact stands open to question or doubt. To speak of an alleged document, an alleged will, an alleged crime, is either to question, or at least very carefully to refrain from admitting, that the document exists, that the will is genuine, or that the crime has been committed. Alleged is, however, respectful; to speak of the "so-called" will or deed, etc., would be to cast discredit upon the document, and imply that the speaker was ready to brand it as unquestionably spurious; alleged simply concedes nothing and leaves the question open. To produce is to bring forward, as, for instance, papers or persons. Adduce is not used of persons; of them we say introduce or produce. When an alleged criminal is brought to trial, the counsel on either side are accustomed to advance a theory, and adduce the strongest possible evidence in its support; they will produce documents and witnesses, cite precedents, assign reasons, introduce suggestions, offer pleas. The accused will usually assert his innocence. Compare STATE.

    Synonyms:
    adduce, advance, affirm, allege, asseverate, assign, aver, cite, claim, declare, introduce, maintain, offer, plead, produce, say, state

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 2 votes

  1. assert

    Antonyms:
    deny, contradict, contravene, waive, abandon

    Synonyms:
    asseverate, declare, pronounce, depose, maintain, statement, avow, avouch, affirm, allege, protest, claim

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. assert, asseverate, maintainverb

    state categorically

    Synonyms:
    asseverate, affirm, keep, conserve, observe, wield, hold, sustain, aver, keep up, avow, defend, put forward, swan, swear, maintain, insist, exert, uphold, preserve, verify

  2. affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swearverb

    to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

    "Before God I swear I am innocent"

    Synonyms:
    vagabond, depose, put forward, ramble, support, range, trust, bank, stray, rove, roll, rely, say, cast, imprecate, avouch, insist, wander, control, corroborate, confirm, affirm, swan, curse, blaspheme, tramp, avow, allege, verify, asseverate, aver, maintain, drift, sustain, substantiate, depone, roam, swear, cuss

  3. assert, put forwardverb

    insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized

    "Women should assert themselves more!"

    Synonyms:
    put up, aver, invoke, call down, affirm, insist, nominate, bring up, state, arouse, stir, submit, posit, avow, put forward, swan, conjure, asseverate, evoke, swear, maintain, call forth, raise, verify, conjure up

  4. insist, assertverb

    assert to be true

    "The letter asserts a free society"

    Synonyms:
    swear, importune, asseverate, maintain, insist, verify, take a firm stand, put forward, swan, affirm, avow, aver

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. assertverb

    Synonyms:
    affirm, state, say, aver, predicate, asseverate, maintain, declare

How to use assert in a sentence?

  1. Friedrich Nietzsche:

    Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

  2. President Biden:

    The fact that China, trying to assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader -- not showing up? Come on.

  3. Cornell Law:

    This is narrower than I anticipated, politically, this allows the administration to assert that it wants to detain families indefinitely -- but a court won't let them do it.

  4. Hugues Salone:

    We're not children, we're adults, we really want to assert our choices, and not the choices of the politicians who do not live up to them.

  5. Edward Snowden on Thursday:

    We have to have a discussion, we have to come forward with proposals to go 'how do we assert what our rights are, traditionally and digitally and to ensure that we can not just enjoy them, but we can protect them.

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