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presumable

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pre·sum·a·ble  (pr-zm-bl)
adj.
That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster.
pre·suma·bly adv.
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Adj.1.presumable - capable of being inferred on slight grounds
supposable, surmisable
thinkable - capable of being conceived or imagined or considered


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And, not to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour between a young sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan; yet, even in the case of one of those young sucking whales hoisted to a ship's deck, such is then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying shape of him, that his precise expression the devil himself could not catch.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
This would be the more likely to take place, as the delinquencies of the larger members might be expected sometimes to proceed from an ambitious premeditation in their rulers, with a view to getting rid of all external control upon their designs of personal aggrandizement; the better to effect which it is presumable they would tamper beforehand with leading individuals in the adjacent States.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
Then it came over me that, in spite of Flora's presumable sequestration from the instant of her return from the pool, it might already be too late.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
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