presumably

English

Alternative forms

præsumably (archaic)

Etymology

From presume +‎ -ably, presumable +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

(UK, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈzjuːməbli/
(US) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈzjuːməbli/, /pɹɪˈʒuːməbli/

Adverb

presumably (comparative more presumably, superlative most presumably)

able to be sensibly presumed
Synonyms: presumptively, presumedly

Presumably, he will attend the opening.
- 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England
  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)
Catalan: presumiblement (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大概 (zh) (dàgài), 想必 (zh) (xiǎngbì), 推測上 (zh), 推测上 (zh) (tuīcè shàng), 假定上 (zh) (jiǎdìng shàng)
Dutch: vermoedelijk (nl), waarschijnlijk (nl)
Finnish: oletettavasti (fi)
French: supposément (fr)
German: vermutlich (de), voraussichtlich (de)
Hungarian: feltételezhetően (hu), alighanem (hu), valószínűleg (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

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