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Presumptively

Definition: Presumptively

Presumptively

Adverb

1. By reasonable assumption; "presumably, he missed the train".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "presumptively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)


Synonym: Presumptively

Synonym: presumably (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Presumptively

"Presumptively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Presumptively" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Presumptively

Language Translations for "presumptively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

æ ¹æ®æŽ¨å®šåœ°. (various references)

   

German

  

vermutlicher. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ì¶"ì •ì 으로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esumptivelypray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Presumptively"

Words rhyming with "presumptively" (pronounced 'Pre*sump"tive*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Presumptively

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-m-p-p-r-s-t-u-v-y"

-2 letters: presumptive.

-3 letters: eruptively, suppertime, suppletive.

-4 letters: empurples, eruptives, lysimeter, peristyle, prelusive, pulverise, repulsive, restively, rumpliest, supremely.

-5 letters: emeritus, emptiers, empurple, emulsive, epilepsy, epistler, epistyle, eruptive, impurely, imputers, lumpiest, peltries, peripety, perlites, permutes, peytrels, pipestem, pleurisy, plumiest, plumpers, plumpest, preempts, prelives, presplit, pretypes, priestly, pulpiest, purplest, reptiles, resupply, ripplets, rivulets, septuple, severity, slippery, smeltery, stippler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Presumptively


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 73 75 6D 70 74 69 76 65 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110101 01101101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#117 &#109 &#112 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0073 0075 006D 0070 0074 0069 0076 0065 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50847185877982867588717891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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