Usually means: Assumed true unless proven otherwise.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. presumptive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. presumptive: Merriam-Webster
  3. presumptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. presumptive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. presumptive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. presumptive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Presumptive, presumptive: Wordnik
  8. presumptive: Wiktionary
  9. presumptive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. presumptive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. presumptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. presumptive: Dictionary.com
  13. Presumptive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Presumptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. presumptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. presumptive: Rhymezone
  17. Presumptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. presumptive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. presumptive: FreeDictionary.org
  20. presumptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. presumptive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. presumptive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. presumptive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. presumptive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
adjective:  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.
adjective:  (embryology) Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but is presumed to develop into a particular body part.
adjective:  Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”)
adjective:  (often law) Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn.

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