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presumably

adverbattested in dialogue

  • United States//pɹɪˈzuːməbli//
  • Australia//pɹɪˈzjuːməbli//
  • Australia//pɹɪˈʒuːməbli//
  • New Zealand//pɹɪˈzjuːməbli//

Able to be sensibly presumed.

adverb

  1. 1

    Able to be sensibly presumed.

    Presumably, he will attend the opening.

    Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing.

    Yet this is the level of [neural] organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.

Etymology

From presume + -ably, presumable + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more presumably
superlative
most presumably
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).