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presumable

presumable adjective: capable of being presumed, or being presumed as such.

Adjective

presumable (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Capable of being presumed, or being presumed as such.
    • The chapter that troubles me is the one on "Straight Men, Gay Fantasies." The presumable criterion for including fantasies in this chapter is that the men do not identify themselves as gay, but usually it is because they are struggling with the idea of a "gay identity" and what it might mean to...1981 February 14, Gary Ralph, “Shake 'N' Bake Sexology”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 16
    • This is evidence in favor of a pre-Roman language affiliation between Sardinia and southern continental Europe. A similar suffix -αρ- has also been identified in presumable pre-Greek words.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 449

presumable meaning in Tamil and Kannada

presumable in Tamil

மெய்யாகக் கருதத்தக்க, உண்மையெனக் கொள்ளத்தக்க

presumable in Kannada

ನಿಜವೆಂದು ಭಾವಿಸಬಹುದಾದ

Origin of presumable

From presume + -able.

Words formed from presumable

Questions about presumable

What does presumable mean?
Presumable means capable of being presumed, or being presumed as such.
What is presumable in Tamil?
Presumable in Tamil is மெய்யாகக் கருதத்தக்க, உண்மையெனக் கொள்ளத்தக்க. See Presumable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is presumable?
Presumable is an adjective.

Words near presumable in the dictionary

  1. presulfidings
  2. presum'd
  3. presumabely
  4. presumabilities
  5. presumability
  6. presumable
  7. presumably
  8. presume
  9. presumed
  10. presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome
  11. presumedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: presumable (page history and authors); presumable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); presumable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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