Another word for inferential
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Adjective
Presumed to be true, real, or genuine, especially on inconclusive grounds
- Of the nature of, including, or involving supposition.
- A conjunction, such as if or providing, that introduces a supposition.
- Substituted with fraudulent intent; spurious.
- Hypothetical; supposed.
- Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- Presumed to be true or real without conclusive evidence:
- Intended:
- Required:
- Based on a presumption; presumed:
- Providing a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance:
- Presumptuous:
- Of, relating to, or based on a hypothesis:
- Conditional; contingent:
- A hypothetical circumstance, condition, scenario, or situation:
- based on hypothesis or theory; hypothetical
- existing as an abstract concept rather than a concrete reality
- based on or involving conjecture
- inclined to make conjectures
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Another word for inferential
Modifier
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- simple past tense and past participle of presume
- appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
- Likely to happen or to be true:
- Likely but uncertain; plausible.
- Of or relating to opinions and actions in ethics and morals for whose lawfulness intrinsic reasons or extrinsic authority may be adduced.
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