Presumptive

//pɹɪˈzʌm(p)tɪv// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.

    "By late May, he was already considered his party’s presumptive nominee."

  2. 2
    Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.; Often postpositive, as in heir presumptive: of an heir or heiress: presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior entitlement is born.

    "The Queen’s younger brother was the heir presumptive to the throne, until she gave birth to her first child."

  3. 3
    Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.; Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but is presumed to develop into a particular body part.
  4. 4
    Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”).

    "Forgive me for being presumptive, but aren’t you and Mark engaged?"

  5. 5
    Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn. often

    "The perſon in this ſituation [having a mere right of property without possession or the right of possession of the property] may have the true ultimate property of the lands in himſelf: but by the intervention of certain circumſtances, either by his ovvn negligence, the ſolemn act of his anceſtor, or the determination of a court of juſtice, the preſumptive evidence of that right is ſtrongly in favour of his antagoniſt; vvho has thereby obtained the abſolute right of poſſeſſion."

Adjective
  1. 1
    affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance wordnet
  2. 2
    having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance wordnet

Etymology

PIE word *upó From Late Middle English presumptif, presumptijf (“based on presumption”), from Anglo-Norman presumptif and Middle French presumptif, présomptif (“based on presumption; of an heir or heiress: presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior entitlement is born; presumptuous”) (modern French présomptif), and directly from their etymon Late Latin praesumptivus (“based on presumption; bold; insolent”), from Latin praesūmptus (“presumed”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives). Praesūmptus is the perfect passive participle of praesūmō (“to presume”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) + sūmō (“to seize, take; to accept, presuppose; to undertake”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”)).

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