Putative

Quick meaning: Putative is an adjective meaning Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.

Meaning

Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.

More Meanings

1. Accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.
2. Alleged, purported, ostensible, professed.
3. (sometimes proscribed) Prospective, potential, proposed.

Example Sentences

In answer to the objection, that if a thing is only putative, it is fictitious

You have the putative assumption, because everybody is interrogated, that everybody who has entered is heterosexual.

Just as Prince Sihanouk is fronting for the Khmer Rouge today . . . so also was he their putative leader from 1970 to 1975.

If they are in fact sound, then, of course, desire-utilitarianism need not account for the putative wrongness of infanticide.

Synonyms for putative

Depending on context, synonyms include reputed, supposed, purported.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include purported, supposed, reputed, acknowledged, presumptive, hypothetical.

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