assert
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
state categorically
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- assertion derivation
- asserter derivation
- affirmable derivation
Sense 2 verb
to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
Before God I swear I am innocent
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- oath derivation
- assertion derivation
- affirmation derivation
- affirmation derivation
- asserter derivation
- swearer derivation
- affirmable derivation
Sense 3 verb
insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
Women should assert themselves more!
Types & categories
- deport hypernym
Related & opposite
- assertive derivation
Sense 4 verb
assert to be true
The letter asserts a free society
Types & categories
- postulate hypernym
Related & opposite
- affirmation derivation
- affirmable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | assertion |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | asserter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmable |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | insist |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | aver |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | predicate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | oath |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | assertion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | asserter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | swearer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmable |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | declare |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hold |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | claim |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | attest |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | declare |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | protest |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | assure |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | assertive |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | deport |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | affirmable |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | postulate |