Presumptive

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  • adjective. Based on a presumption; presumed.
  • adjective. Providing a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance.
  • adjective. Presumptuous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Based on presumption or probability; probable; grounded on probable evidence; proving circumstantially, not directly.
  • Unreasonably confident; presumptuous; arrogant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable.
  • adjective. Presumptuous; arrogant.
  • adjective. that which is derived from circumstances which necessarily or usually attend a fact, as distinct from direct evidence or positive proof; indirect or circumstantial evidence. “Presumptive evidence of felony should be cautiously admitted.” Blackstone. The distinction, however, between direct and presumptive (or circumstantial) evidence is now generally abandoned; all evidence being now more or less direct and more or less presumptive.
  • adjective. See Heir presumptive, under Heir.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief
  • adjective. making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps shouldn't.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance
  • adjective. having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance