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Definition: Presumptive |
PresumptiveAdjective1. Having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance; "the presumptive heir (or heir apparent)". 2. Affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance; "presumptive evidence"; "a strong presumptive case is made out". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "presumptive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A treatment based on an assumed diagnosis, prior to receiving confirmatory laboratory test results. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dueness | Privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved. |
Evidence | Oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof; (demonstration); evidence in chief. |
Possessor | Heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress; inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner, remainderman. |
Probability | Vraisemblance, verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance, show of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence; credibility. |
Plausible, specious, ostensible, colorable, ben trovato, well-founded, reasonable, credible, easy of belief, presumable, presumptive, apparent. | |
Supposition | Adjective: supposing; Verb: given, mooted, postulatory; assumed; Verb: supposititious, suppositive, suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative; suppositional. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Presumptive |
| English words defined with "presumptive": Presumptive evidence, Presumptive heir. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "presumptive": Kingly Titles ♦ most probable number ♦ selection culture. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "presumptive": Tanist. (references) |
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Health | For both VLM and OLM, a presumptive diagnosis rests on clinical signs, history of exposure to puppies, laboratory findings (including eosinophilia), and the detection of antibodies to Toxocara. (references) | |
In patients in whom the presumptive diagnosis is oral HSV infection, it is reasonable to initiate therapy with either oral or intravenous acyclovir while awaiting the results of viral diagnostic tests. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Presumptive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Presumptive" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "presumptive": heir presumptive ♦ presumptive address ♦ presumptive evidence ♦ presumptive heir ♦ presumptive income ♦ presumptive instruction ♦ Presumptive taxation ♦ presumptive treatment. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "presumptive": heir-presumptive, nominee-presumptive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
presumptive | 6 |
eligibility presumptive | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "presumptive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i supozuar (alleged, assumed, conjectural, expected, hypothetic, putative, reputed, supposed), i nxjerrë me supozim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إفتراضي (hypothetical, moral), داع للإفتراض. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вероятен (assumptive, believable, contingent, expected, feasible, liable, likely, probable, prospective, verisimilar), предполагаем (alleged, assumptive, conjectural, presumable, probable, putative, reputed, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, tentative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 据推定. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | domnìlý (alleged, assumed, fancied, imaginary, supposed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | præsumptivt organområde (presumptive organ region), tentativ behandling (empirical treatment, presumptive treatment), skønnet indtægt (presumptive income), originalordre (presumptive instruction, unmodified instruction), foreløbig adresse (base address, presumptive address, reference address), basisadresse (base address, presumptive address, reference address). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voorlopige behandeling (empirical treatment, presumptive treatment), verondersteld inkomen (presumptive income), vermoedelijke erfgename van de Kroon (heiress presumptive), rechtsvermoeden van overlijden (presumptive proof of death), oriënterende proef (presumptive test), oorspronkelijke opdracht (presumptive instruction, unmodified instruction), forfaitaire belastingheffing (Presumptive taxation), forfaitaire aanslag (Presumptive taxation), bewijs door vermoeden (inferential evidence, presumptive evidence, probable evidence), basisadres (base address, presumptive address, reference address). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | perusosoite (base address, presumptive address, reference address), oletettu isä (presumptive father, reputed father), kuolemaa koskeva laillinen olettama (presumptive proof of death), hoito oletetun diagnoosin perusteella (empirical treatment, presumptive treatment), arvioitu tulo (presumptive income). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | présomptif (probably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vermutliches. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πιθανόσ (contingent, likely, presumable, probable), υποθετικόσ (assumed, conditional, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, suppositional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vélelmezett (putative), valószínű (feasible, likely, probable, the odds are that, verisimilar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | presunto (alleged, assumptive, presumed, pretended, putative, required), presuntivo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | " (inference, Presuming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | barelagh (speculative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esumptivepray presuntivo, presumível (presumable, supposed). (various references) probabil (as like as not, feasible, haply, it must be, like, likely, presumably, probable, probably, supposable), prezumtiv, ipotetic (assumed, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, hypothetically). (various references) предполагаемый (alleged, anticipative, assumable, expected, implied, probable, purported, putative, reputed, supposed, suppositional). (various references) koji se pretpostavlja. (various references) presunto (alleged, apparent, assumedly, presumed, pretended, probably, reputed, supposable), presuntivo. (various references) presumtiv, sannolik (feasible, likely, plausible, probable). (various references) ผู้เป็นทายาทโ"ยสันนิษฐาน (heir presumptive). (various references) гаданий (apparent, assumptive, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, presumed, putative, quasi, reputed, superficial, suppositional, supposititious), можливий (affordable, apt, conceivable, contingent, eventual, feasible, likely, possible, potential, presumable, probable, prospective), здогадний (a priory), презумптивний. (various references) cho l đúng (presumedly), cầm bằng; đoán chừng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "presumptive": presumptively. (additional references) | |
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"Presumptive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: presumtive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "presumptive" (pronounced prēzu"mptiv) |
| 5 | -m p t i v | preemptive, redemptive. |
| 4 | -p t i v | adaptive, adoptive, captive, contraceptive, corruptive, deceptive, descriptive, disparages, disruptive, eruptive, perceptive, receptive, unreceptive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, cooperative, corrective, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, dispositive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, recuperative, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-p-p-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: suppertime. | |
-2 letters: eruptives. | |
-3 letters: emeritus, emptiers, eruptive, imputers, permutes, pipestem, preempts, stumpier. | |
-4 letters: empires, emprise, emptier, empties, epimers, impetus, imprese, imprest, imputer, imputes, metiers, mustier, permits, permute, pestier, preempt, premies, premise, presume, previse, prevues, privets, pumpers, reemits, repumps, reputes, respite, restive, retimes, revuist, septime, spireme, spumier, stepper, stuiver, stumper, sumpter, supreme, tempers, tippers, triseme. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-p-p-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: presumptively. | |
+5 letters: supercompetitive. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 73 75 6D 70 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . ... ..- -- .--. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110101 01101101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e s u m p t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0073 0075 006D 0070 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5084718587798286758871 |
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