Word familynounpresumptionpresumerpresumptuousnessverbpresumeadverbpresumablypresuminglypresumptivelypresumptuouslyadjectivepresumablepresumingpresumptivepresumptuous
THINK SO/NOT BE SUREused to say that you think something is probably true 可能,大概,据推测
It’s raining, which presumably means that your football match will be cancelled.
下雨了,这可能意味着你们的足球比赛要取消。
[sentence adverbadv]
He’s dead now, presumably?
也许他已经死了呢?
Examples from the Corpus
presumably• If the cap fitted Irving, presumably he could wear it.• Presumably he's going to come back and get this stuff.• This presumably involved the slitting of rolledplates into bars, these being converted into nail-rods.• Several of the villagersdisappeared, presumablykilled by enemysoldiers.• In the discussion below, the obstacles are located within the occupation where presumably sociologists can solve them.• Both were presumablytenants as Charles Ballinger still owned the mill up to the 1850s.• In the center of the photo is a tall, well-dressed woman - presumably the firm's boss.• The audience hears the word so many times during the play that presumably they learn what it means if they didn't already know.• Others that he signed presumably took less thought.• The society that built Newgrange presumably used it for hundreds of years.• Few women, presumably, would want to return to the assumptions on which the old system was based.