Crossword-Solution: PRESUMPTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Presumptive | a. | Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof. |
| Presumptive | a. | Presumptuous; arrogant. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “PRESUMPTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | 1 answer |
| presuming | 17 answers |
| Expecting | 28 answers |
| postulated | 30 answers |
| formalistic | 30 answers |
| reputed | 31 answers |
| taken as known | 31 answers |
| commonly believed | 31 answers |
| Presupposed | 31 answers |
| suppositional | 32 answers |
| taken for granted | 33 answers |
| putative | 34 answers |
| presumed | 38 answers |
| illegitimate | 41 answers |
| Concluded | 42 answers |
| Granted | 46 answers |
| Customary | 48 answers |
| Alleged. | 49 answers |
| Given | 53 answers |
| unresolved | 57 answers |
| Frequent | 58 answers |
| Antecedent. | 62 answers |
| supposed | 64 answers |
| Everyday | 64 answers |
| ACADEMIC ___ | 65 answers |
| accustomed | 66 answers |
| unreserved | 69 answers |
| unconstrained | 71 answers |
| Unceremonious | 72 answers |
| Usual | 75 answers |
| Gay | 88 answers |
| "Understood" | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PRESUMPTIVE (5)
Heir presumptive, his lordship's next brother, Stephen Robert, married to Ella, youngest daughter of the Reverend Silas Marden, Rector of Runnigate, and has issue, three daughters.
For though Giles had in a measure acquiesced in the wish of her family, he could make matters unpleasant if he chose to work upon Grace; and hence, when Melbury saw the young man approaching along the road one day, he kept friendliness and frigidity exactly balanced in his eye till he could see whether Giles’s manner was presumptive or not.
The only person who was not quite happy was the King's brother, the heir presumptive, who would have been king one day had the baby not been born.
The Archduke Matthias, Maximilian's second son, Viceroy in Hungary, and Rodolph's presumptive heir, now came forward as the stay of the falling house of Hapsburg.
The open shutters bore a variety of golden inscriptions, eulogistic of good beds and neat wines; and the choice group of countrymen and hostlers lounging about the stable door and horse-trough, afforded presumptive proof of the excellent quality of the ale and spirits which were sold within.
Quotes with PRESUMPTIVE (3)
... with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.
If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is the rise of cultural pessimism, whose major passion is bitter hostility toward many or most of the people within the very culture the pessimists always feel they are intent on rescuing. When panic on one side is creating alarm on another, it is easy to forget there are always as good grounds for optimism as for pessimism, exactly the same grounds, in fact. That is because we are…