presumptive

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.

   “By late May, he was already considered his party’s presumptive nominee.”

2. sıfat 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.

   “The Queen’s younger brother was the heir presumptive to the throne, until she gave birth to her first child.”

3. sıfat Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but is presumed to develop into a particular body part.
4. sıfat Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”).

   “Forgive me for being presumptive, but aren’t you and Mark engaged?”

5. sıfat Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn.

   “Though we had seen no land since leaving Calloa, Cape Horn was said to be somewhere to the West of us; and though there was no positive evidence of the fact, the weather encountered might be accounted pretty good presumptive proof.”