asserted

Speech parts

1. asserted - Adjective

2. asserted - Verb

4. asserted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Assert

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

declared maintained professed avowed stated emphasized affirmed warranted claimed proclaimed argued insisted contended swan jawed
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Antonyms

confused unseen misunderstood disregarded invalidated mumbling
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Phrases with the word

be asserted more asserted asserted oneself

Anagrams

deassert starseed teadress

Examples

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Arthur Schopenhauer

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens

Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious. Marie-Louise von Franz

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. Aaron Burr

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. H. G. Wells

Close letter words and terms

assertability assertable assertation asserted oneself assertedly asserter