presumably

English

Alternative forms

• præsumably (archaic)

Etymology

From presume +‎ -ably, presumable +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈzjuːməbli/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈzjuːməbli/, /pɹɪˈʒuːməbli/

Adverb

presumably (comparative more presumably, superlative most presumably)

1. Able to be sensibly presumed.

   Synonyms: presumptively, presumedly

   Presumably, he will attend the opening.

   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England‎^[1]:

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

   • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

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

Translations

able to be sensibly presumed

• Arabic: الْمُفْتَرَض مِنْ (ar) (min al-muftaraḍ)
• Bulgarian: възможно (bg) (vǎzmožno), навярно (bg) (navjarno)
• Catalan: presumiblement (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大概 (zh) (dàgài), 想必 (zh) (xiǎngbì), 推測上／推测上 (zh) (tuīcè shàng), 假定上 (zh) (jiǎdìng shàng)

• Danish: antageligvis
• Dutch: vermoedelijk (nl), waarschijnlijk (nl)
• Finnish: oletettavasti (fi)
• French: présumablement (fr)
• German: vermutlich (de), voraussichtlich (de)
• Hungarian: feltételezhetően (hu), alighanem (hu), valószínűleg (hu), vélhetőleg (hu), feltehetőleg (hu)
• Irish: de réir cosúlachta, de réir dealraimh
• Japanese: おそらく (ja) (osoraku), 思うに (ja) (おもうに, omou ni), 推定上 (ja) (すいていじょう, suteijō)
• Polish: przypuszczalnie (pl)
• Portuguese: presumivelmente
• Russian: предположи́тельно (ru) (predpoložítelʹno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на́равно, разу̀мљиво, подразумијева се, подразумева се

  Roman: náravno (sh), razùmljivo (sh), podrazumijeva se (sh), podrazumeva se

• Spanish: presumiblemente, probablemente (es), presuntamente

See also

• presumedly
• presumingly