Difference between Presumptive and Credible

What is the difference between Presumptive and Credible?

Presumptive as an adjective is based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief while Credible as an adjective is believable or plausible

Presumptive

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps shouldn't.

Credible

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: believable or plausibleauthentic or convincing

Example sentence: The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

We hope you now know whether to use Presumptive or Credible in your sentence.

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