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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb presume which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

presumptive
  1. Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief.
  2. Making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps shouldn't.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Does he not display remarkable acumen and shrewdness in his logic and a haughty disregard of the presumptive facts which might overthrow some important point in his argument?”
      “He was discharged the following afternoon with a presumptive diagnosis of vasovagal syncope, perhaps related to defecation.”
      “This is presumptive evidence of chronic hemolysis if the reticulocytosis is sustained.”
presumptuous
  1. Going beyond what is right, proper, or appropriate because of an excess of self-confidence or arrogance.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It would be very presumptuous of you to presume to tell me what I should or shouldn't do.”
      “The traitorous assassins who were thus absolved by these meddling and presumptuous priests, had expressed no sort of contrition or repentance for the infernal project in which they had engaged.”
      “He was especially incensed by Charlotte's presumptuous decision to cremate his brother.”
presumed
  1. appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Such language is normally used to create mandatory presumptions of law that require a trier of fact to find a presumed fact upon proof of a basic fact.”
presumable
  1. Capable of being presumed.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But the prosecution has never questioned him in spite of his presumable violation of the law.”
      “All of these things matter far, far more than my presumable location on some scale of intellect.”
      “So I stand up and walk back into the house, which is by now dark and quiet, presumable because everyone is either asleep or in their room.”
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