'Presumptive' definitions:
Definition of 'presumptive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance; "the presumptive heir (or heir apparent)"
adjective
Affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance; "presumptive evidence"; "a strong presumptive case is made out"
Definition of 'Presumptive'
From: GCIDE
- Presumptive \Pre*sump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]somptif.]
- 1. Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Presumptuous; arrogant. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- Presumptive evidence (Law), 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.
- Presumptive heir. See Heir presumptive, under Heir. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'presumptive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- acceptable,
- accounted as,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- alleged,
- apt,
- assumed,
- assumptive,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- authentic,
- based on,
- believable,
- certain,
- circumstantial,
- conceivable,
- conclusive,
- conjectured,
- convincing,
- credible,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- decisive,
- deemed,
- determinative,
- documentary,
- documented,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex parte,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- fair,
- final,
- firsthand,
- foreseeable,
- founded on,
- given,
- granted,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- hopeful,
- implicit,
- in the cards,
- incontrovertible,
- indicative,
- indisputable,
- inferred,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- justifiable,
- liable,
- likely,
- material,
- nuncupative,
- odds-on,
- overwhelming,
- plausible,
- postulated,
- postulational,
- predicated,
- predictable,
- predictable within limits,
- predicted,
- premised,
- presumable,
- presumed,
- probable,
- probative,
- promising,
- putative,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- reliable,
- reputed,
- sensible,
- significant,
- sound,
- statistically probable,
- suggestive,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- sure,
- symptomatic,
- taken for granted,
- telling,
- tenable,
- understood,
- valid,
- verisimilar,
- weighty