assert

Plural: asserts

Verb

Verb Forms: asserted, asserting, asserts

• To state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully.
• state categorically
• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
• insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
  • "Women should assert themselves more!"
• assert to be true
  • "The letter asserts a free society"
• To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
• To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
• To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
• To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
• To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
• To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.

Noun

• Synonym of assertion.

Examples

• He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
• I assert that ’ZA’ is a perfectly playable word, and I’ll prove it.
• Since going to therapy, I've found it much easier to assert myself.

Synonyms

affirm, asseverate, aver, avow, insist, maintain, put forward, swan, swear, verify, assertion

Antonyms

deassert, deny, remit

Anagrams of assert