Synonyms for presumptive
prɪˈzʌmp tɪvpre·sump·tive

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1. presumptiveadjective

   Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief

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

   Synonyms:
   presumed, likely

2. presumptiveadjective

   making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps shouldn't.

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

   Synonyms:
   presumptuous

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1. presumptive

   Synonyms:
   probable, antecedent

   Antonyms:
   demonstrative, established

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1. presumptiveadjective

   having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance

   "the presumptive heir (or heir apparent)"

   Antonyms:
   unbelievable, unlikely, improbable, incredible

2. presumptiveadjective

   affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance

   "presumptive evidence"; "a strong presumptive case is made out"

   Antonyms:
   unbelievable, improbable, unlikely, incredible

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1. presumptiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   grounded on probable evidence

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1. List of paraphrases for "presumptive":

   presumption, alleged, presumed, suspected, deeming

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1. Pensions Committee:

   Such gaps include the failure to identify the original host reservoir, the failure to identify a candidate intermediate host species and the lack of serological or epidemiological evidence showing transmission from animals to humans, among others outlined in this report. As a result of these evidentiary gaps, it is hard to treat the natural zoonotic spillover theory as the presumptive origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. Charles Krauthammer:

   Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

3. Herman Cain:

   Editorializing for a rate cut as a presumptive nominee is unthinkable behavior.

4. The Post:

   Some allies of President Trump pointed Monday to new claims by a woman who said she was told about sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden decades ago, renewing attention to questions about the past behavior of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

5. Matthew Elliott:

   I wouldn't see it as the wind of [ presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald ] Trump - I think there is a much wider anti-establishment feeling across the world.