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▸ 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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probable,
plausible,
credible,
likely,
believable,
pres.,
assumed,
assumptive,
antecedent,
suppositive,
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