presumableadj.
/prᵻˈzjuːməbl/, U.S. /priˈz(j)uməb(ə)l/, /prəˈz(j)uməb(ə)l/ 1. Able to be presumed or taken for granted; that may reasonably be assumed; likely, probable.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adjective]
likelya1400
seemlya1400
probable?a1425
allowablec1443
seeming?c1450
apt1528
topical1594
liking1611
suspicable1651
presumable1655
feasible1656
suspected1706
in the cards1764
on the cards1788
in the dice1844
liable1888
better-than-chance1964
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 158 What the precise product of the Clergy offerings was is not material to insert, nor could my information reach it, only it is presumable it was very ample.
1669 J. Reynolds Disc. Prodigious Abstinence 20 You have a third ferment which in these Abstinents is presumeable to be highly useful, for several of them (not to say all) were Spleneticks before they were Abstinents.
1692 J. Locke Toleration iii. viii, in Wks. (1727) II. 380 Which Corruption of Nature, that they may retain..I think is very presumable.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. i. 5 Supposing myself to consist of soul and body, 'tis fairly presumable that 'tis my soul that thinks.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. v. 17 The magistrates..assemble in it from time to time; so that 'tis presumable, justice is regularly distributed.
1780 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (new ed.) I. xxxiii. 218 It is presumable that those who protected Ludlow, did not approve of this part of his story, and on that account a particular mention of it was not made on his tomb.
1800 A. Hamilton Let. conc. Public Conduct J. Adams 34 It is presumeable..that, had not the declaration about sending a Minister to her intervened, she would have sent one to us.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lv. 297 Not to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour between a young sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan.
1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iii. 145 No other presumable mark of violence was seen.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xviii. 228 Babbitt had heard stories of..‘cuddling’ and ‘petting’, and a presumable increase in what was known as Immorality.
1983 Amer. Speech 58 118 A presumable influence here is the form for a Catholic priest as given in Vanderbilt.
2005 Independent (Nexis) 24 Oct. 10 For anyone planning a party..the humble sausage is apparently a winning choice... One presumable proviso would be to avoid the cheapest options on the supermarket shelf.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adjective] > expected
futurec1374
in a possibility1523
forestalled1543
looked-for1548
anticipatec1550
expected1558
long-looked-for1562
looked1565
in expectation1570
expectable1619
expecting1621
in perspective1633
unsurprising1671
in prospect1694
perspective1710
in prospective1746–7
prospective1809
anticipated1814
presumable1825
anticipatable1872
ex ante1937
1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 96 Whether a person..of sixty-three..may hope to arrive, within a presumable number of years, at..the character..of a learned man.
1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xix. 435 The abrupt return of Philip Augustus..compromised the presumable results of the third crusade.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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