Definitions for presumptive

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presumptive pre·sump·tive

Spelling: [pri-zuhmp-tiv]

IPA: /prɪˈzʌmp tɪv/

Presumptive is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 746 anagrams from letters in presumptive (eeimpprstuv).

Definitions for presumptive

adjective

1. affording ground for presumption:
2. based on likelihood or presumption:
3. regarded as such by presumption; based on inference.
4. Embryology. pertaining to the part of an embryo that, in the course of normal development, will predictably become a particular structure or region.

Origin of presumptive

From the Late Latin word praesūmptīvus, dating back to 1555-65. See presumption, -iv

Examples for presumptive

But while you have no certainty of this, there is a presumptive argument on the other side.

Whoever wins that primary will still be an underdog against the presumptive Democratic nominee, Rep. Bruce Braley.

The judge would then qualify the crime, and decide who was the presumptive culprit.

But we have to note that such value-standards are only presumptive.

Her presumptive Republican opponent, Attorney General Greg Abbott, has already raised nearly $21 million.

And thus the truth which it apprehends is at first only presumptive.

The spotlight will soon fix itself on the presumptive Democratic 2016 nominee, whose name, I think, we all know.

The presumptive Democratic nominee is Rep. Bruce Braley, a four-term congressman from northeast Iowa.

These groups turn out in greater numbers in presidential elections, giving Democrats a presumptive advantage heading into 2016.

But the presumptive evidence is so strong that it is hardly needed.