'Putative' definitions:
Definition of 'putative'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the putative author of the book"
Definition of 'Putative'
From: GCIDE
- Putative \Pu"ta*tive\, a. [L. putativus, fr. putare, putatum, to reckon, suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See Pure, and cf. Amputate, Compute, Dispute, Impute.] Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. "His other putative (I dare not say feigned) friends." --E. Hall. [1913 Webster]
- Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'putative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accountable,
- accounted as,
- alleged,
- ascribable,
- assignable,
- assumed,
- assumptive,
- attributable,
- attributed,
- charged,
- conjectural,
- conjectured,
- credited,
- deemed,
- derivable from,
- derivational,
- derivative,
- due,
- explicable,
- given,
- granted,
- hypothetical,
- imputable,
- imputed,
- inferred,
- owing,
- postulated,
- postulational,
- premised,
- presumed,
- presumptive,
- referable,
- referred to,
- reputed,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- suppository,
- taken for granted,
- traceable,
- understood