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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈpju.tə.tɪv/ [UK], /ˈpju.tə.tɪv/ [US], [ˈpju.ɾə.ɾɪv] [US], /ˈpjʉ.tə.tɪv/ [General-Australian], [ˈpjʉ.ɾə.ɾɪv] [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-putative.wav Forms: more putative [comparative], most putative [superlative]
Etymology: First attested 1432, from Middle French putatif, from Latin putātīvus (“supposed, purported”), from putātus (“thought”), from putō (“I think, I consider, I reckon”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pewH-}}, {{der|en|frm|putatif}} Middle French putatif, {{der|en|la|putātīvus|t=supposed, purported}} Latin putātīvus (“supposed, purported”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} putative (comparative more putative, superlative most putative)
  1. Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed. Synonyms: reputed, supposed Translations (commonly believed or deemed to be the case): ենթադրյալ (entʻadryal) (Armenian), мним (mnim) (Bulgarian), предполагаем (predpolagaem) (Bulgarian), putatiu (Catalan), 推定的 (tuīdìng de) (Chinese Mandarin), 假定的 (jiǎdìng de) (Chinese Mandarin), domnělý [masculine] (Czech), putativní [common-gender] (Czech), zogenaamd (Dutch), vermoedelijk (Dutch), vermeend (Dutch), arvatav (Estonian), oletatav (Estonian), oletettu (Finnish), putatif (French), présumé (French), mutmaßlich (German), vermeintlich (German), angeblich (German), φερόμενος (alt: ως) (Greek), υποτιθέμενος (ypotithémenos) (Greek), feltételezett (Hungarian), vélelmezett (Hungarian), vélt (Hungarian), meintur [masculine] (Icelandic), putativo (Italian), 推定 (suitei) (alt: すいてい) (Japanese), претпоставен (pretpostaven) [masculine] (Macedonian), наводен (navoden) [masculine] (Macedonian), antatt (Norwegian), formentlig (Norwegian), formodet (Norwegian), domniemany [masculine] (Polish), przypuszczalny [masculine] (Polish), putativo [masculine] (Portuguese), предположи́тельный (predpoložítelʹnyj) (Russian), вероя́тный (verojátnyj) (Russian), мни́мый (mnímyj) (Russian), претпо̀стављен [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), наводан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), вје̏роја̄тан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), pretpòstavljen [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), navodan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), vjȅrojātan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), presunto (Spanish), supuesto (Spanish), förment (Swedish), förmodad (Swedish), varsayılan (Turkish), farz edilen (Turkish), varsayımsal (Turkish), га́даний (hádanyj) (Ukrainian), припусти́мий (prypustýmyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. Accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.
    Sense id: en-putative-en-adj-B1WnLUZF
  3. Alleged, purported, ostensible, professed.
    Sense id: en-putative-en-adj-i-WN9AMG
  4. (loose or possibly mistaken use) Prospective, potential, proposed, possible.
    Sense id: en-putative-en-adj-bxkUmSF1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: putative marriage

Adjective [French]

IPA: /py.ta.tiv/
Head templates: {{head|fr|adjective form}} putative
  1. feminine singular of putatif Tags: feminine, form-of, singular Form of: putatif
    Sense id: en-putative-fr-adj-SeOeGfTp Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries

Adjective [German]

IPA: /putaˈtiːvə/ Audio: De-putative.ogg
Head templates: {{head|de|adjective form}} putative
  1. inflection of putativ:
    strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    Tags: accusative, feminine, form-of, mixed, nominative, singular, strong
    Sense id: en-putative-de-adj-~j8XMpYs
  2. inflection of putativ:
    strong nominative/accusative plural
    Tags: accusative, form-of, nominative, plural, strong
    Sense id: en-putative-de-adj-N87rvLa8
  3. inflection of putativ:
    weak nominative all-gender singular
    Tags: form-of, nominative, singular, weak
    Sense id: en-putative-de-adj-axOdPtH2 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 15 13 50 21
  4. inflection of putativ:
    weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
    Tags: accusative, feminine, form-of, neuter, singular, weak
    Sense id: en-putative-de-adj-kc5XRiAm

Adjective [Italian]

IPA: /pu.taˈti.ve/
Rhymes: -ive Head templates: {{head|it|adjective form}} putative
  1. feminine plural of putativo Tags: feminine, form-of, plural Form of: putativo
    Sense id: en-putative-it-adj-OUiUp8uj Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Paralleling this extension of government control was the development of a formally constituted opposition […] In some cases a former Prime Minister was clearly acknowledged as leader and putative Prime Minister , in others a generally-accepted leader emerged.",
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          "ref": "2004, Katherine Joslin, Jane Addams: A Writer's Life, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 74:",
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          "text": "One of the criteria of design selection is therefore availability of applicable analysis techniques specifically adapted to the putative design. When Robert Stephenson was considering possible designs for a railway bridge over the Menai, he considered, but eventually rejected, a suspension bridge.",
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          "text": "We mistakenly identify the reasoning that we employ in order to show that a putative judgement is grounded, with what makes for the difference between its being a judgement rather than guesswork.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 22, Anja Geitmann, Plant Cell Walls: Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights, CRC Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The capacity of monoclonal antibodies such as 2F4 to identify the egg-box structure is only putative as Liners et al. (1989) mention in the abstract: “The epitope recognised is probably part of the dimers of pectin chains associated according to the 'egg-box' model,” and there is no definitive evidence of a strong specificity to such structures in muro.",
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          "ref": "2006 August 18, Unmesh Kher, “No Neat Endings for the JonBenet Case”, in Time:",
          "text": "Karr's past does raise suspicions. When he was arrested in Bangkok, he was living in a dormitory-like guesthouse in a neighborhood frequented by sex tourists. . . . Of course, Karr's putative pedophilia would not make him guilty of murder.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 April 1, Pål Kolstø, Strategies of Symbolic Nation-building in South Eastern Europe, Routledge, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "Nation-building strategies have two prongs: they aim as creating unity within, and difference without. […] It is not enough to tear down walls among the members of the putative nation: one must also erect imaginary boundaries around them that separate them from the outside world.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016 August 11, Mary Karr, “The Crotchgrabber”, in The New Yorker:",
          "text": "I’ve been subject to several gropings and gross jibes of the type you’d expect behind a junior-high gym dance, and they’ve been delivered by grownups, putative pals, not one of whom I even dimly considered getting jiggy with.",
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          "ref": "1981, Michael Rush, Parliamentary Government in Britain, New York : Holmes & Meier Publishers:",
          "text": "Paralleling this extension of government control was the development of a formally constituted opposition […] In some cases a former Prime Minister was clearly acknowledged as leader and putative Prime Minister , in others a generally-accepted leader emerged.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Katherine Joslin, Jane Addams: A Writer's Life, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 74:",
          "text": "She requested that no announcement be made of the promised book until she had more of it down on paper. Having put some distance between herself and her putative book, she relaxed by continuing to lecture and to work on other projects.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 November 27, Egon Börger, Antonio Cisternino, Advances in Software Engineering: Lipari Summer School 2007, Lipari Island, Italy, July 8-21, 2007, Revised Tutorial Lectures, Springer, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "One of the criteria of design selection is therefore availability of applicable analysis techniques specifically adapted to the putative design. When Robert Stephenson was considering possible designs for a railway bridge over the Menai, he considered, but eventually rejected, a suspension bridge.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2009 October 1, Christian Wolmar, Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain, Atlantic Books Ltd, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He was sacked from the Liverpool & Manchester and his place as surveyor was taken by Charles Vignoles, a slender Irishman who had recently carried out an excellent survey of the route between London and Brighton for another putative railway.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2011 November 3, P. W. Preston, England after the Great Recession: Tracking the Political and Cultural Consequences of the Crisis, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:",
          "text": "The text was then promptly rejected in France and a little later in the Netherlands and as these were both core founding members the putative constitution was politically finished.",
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          "text": "2018, Samuel J Fell, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen and John Shand, \"Music reviews: John Coltrane, Bob Dylan and Catherine Britt\", Sydney Morning Herald, July 20, 2018 https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/music-reviews-john-coltrane-bob-dylan-and-catherine-britt-20180716-h12qhu.html\nFrom the duration of the material (47 minutes) it seems the clear intent was to record an album, rather than just lay down a few tracks. … Because the putative album was not released Coltrane never named the originals, which are delineated by Impulse's numbering system."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 07, Richard Tomlinson, Marcus Spiller, Australia's Metropolitan Imperative: An Agenda for Governance Reform, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 104:",
          "text": "Without a metro mayor, negotiation about a devolution deal may have collapsed amid the kind of acrimony evident in other putative city-regions in respect of the perceived imposition of an unwanted elected figurehead (Cox 2016).",
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          "text": "2023, Dan Hodges, \"Can Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves serve up the right dish for business after years on the scrambled egg circuit?\", Mail on Sunday, 7 October 2023 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12606335/DAN-HODGES-Labours-Shadow-Chancellor-Rachel-Reeves-serve-right-dish-business-years-scrambled-egg-circuit.html\nThe process of selecting which businesses should be allowed to kiss the ring of putative Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and presumptive Chancellor Reeves, has not been left to chance."
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      "word": "putatif"
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