Plausible vs Presumptive - What's the difference?
plausible | presumptive |
Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
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Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
Using specious arguments or discourse. (rfv-sense)
(obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief
making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps shouldn't.
As adjectives the difference between plausible and presumptive
is that plausible is seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse while presumptive is based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief.plausible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows'' (innately) or ''learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
- a plausible''' pretext; '''plausible''' manners; a '''plausible delusion
- a plausible speaker
- (Bishop Hacket)
Derived terms
* plausibilitypresumptive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- By late May, he was already considered his party's presumptive nominee.
- Forgive me for being presumptive , but aren't you and Mark engaged?