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Definition: Putative |
PutativeAdjective1. Commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "putative" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Putative \Pu"ta*tive\, adjective. [Latin expression putativus, from putare, putatum, to reckon, suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See Pure, and compare to Amputate, Compute, Dispute, Impute.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PUMP | English | Putative metalloproteinase | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PutativeSynonyms: purported(a) (adj), putative(a) (adj), reputed(a) (adj), supposed(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attribution | Adjective: attributed; Verb: attributable; Verb: referable to, referrible to, due to, derivable from; owing to; (effect); putative; ecbatic. |
Belief | Believed; Verb: accredited, putative; unsuspected. |
Supposition | Adjective: supposing; Verb: given, mooted, postulatory; assumed; Verb: supposititious, suppositive, suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative; suppositional. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Putative |
| English words defined with "putative": purported ♦ reputed ♦ supposed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "putative": case comparison study, case compeer study, case reference study, case referent study, case-control study, CDA, Cell Cycle Proteins ♦ Etimizol ♦ gel retardation assay, gel shift assay ♦ Hepatitis Agents, GB ♦ Pietro, Plant Root Cap ♦ Retrospective Studies ♦ selection culture. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | To reduce the risk of putative infectious agent(s) associated with posttransfusion non-A, non-B, non-C hepatitis. (references) | |
Furthermore, the consensus panel seeks to emphasize that the possible benefits of body fat reduction outweigh putative exercise effects. (references) | ||
One current limitation is that children are typically implanted at no earlier than 2 years of age, which is beyond putative critical periods of auditory input for the acquisition of oral language. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Fiji | The takeover of Parliament in May 2000 and subsequent events, including the putative abrogation of the Constitution and effort to abolish the Supreme Court, placed the status of the judiciary in question. (references) |
Yemen | The convicted leader, Hatem bin Fareed, appealed his 7-year jail sentence, but in April the Sana'a Appeals Court upheld it. Authorities maintain that bin Fareed was the putative successor to AAIA leader "Abu Hassan," who was executed in 1999. The Government claims that it does not hold political prisoners. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Putative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Putative" is used about 243 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 243 | 19,167 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "putative": putative father. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
putative | 16 |
father putative registry | 4 |
due father process putative | 3 |
father putative | 2 |
putative spouse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "putative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i supozuar (alleged, assumed, conjectural, expected, hypothetic, presumptive, reputed, supposed), i hamendsuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مطنون, وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | предполагаем (alleged, assumptive, conjectural, presumable, presumptive, probable, reputed, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, tentative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 想像. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | PCaP-gen (PCaP gene, putative predisposing gene for cancer of the prostate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | putatief huwelijk (putative marriage), PCaP-gen (PCaP gene, putative predisposing gene for cancer of the prostate), vermoeden van vaderschap (putative fatherhood), vermeend kind (putative child). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مفروض (Given), موردقبول عامه , مشهور (Famous, Grand, Historic, Loud, Name, Reputable, Reputed), قلمدادشده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | putatiivinen lapsi (putative child), putatiivinen avioliitto (putative marriage), peruutuneesta avioliitosta syntynyt aviolapseksi katsottava lapsi (putative child), luuloteltu lapsi (putative child), luuloteltu avioliitto (putative marriage), isyysolettama (putative fatherhood), eturauhassyövälle altistava geeni (PCaP gene, putative predisposing gene for cancer of the prostate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | putatif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vermeintlich (alleged, pretended, reputed, supposed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποτιθεμένοσ (alleged, presumable, reputed, self-styled, supposed), θεωρούμενοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משוער (estimated, hypothetical, supposed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vélt (famed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sangkaan (idea, surmise), duduga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | presunto (alleged, assumptive, presumed, presumptive, pretended, required). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 상상속. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheiltynagh (conjectural, fanciful, imaginable, imaginary, imaginative, notional, presumable, speculative, speculator, theoretic, theoretical, theorist, thinkable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utativepay putativo. (various references) мнимый (alleged, imaginary, mock, ostensible, professed, put-on, seeming, self-styled, supposed, would be), предполагаемый (alleged, anticipative, assumable, expected, implied, presumptive, probable, purported, reputed, supposed, suppositional). (various references) putativo. (various references) putativt äktenskap (putative marriage), ogiltigt men i god tro ingånget äktenskap (putative marriage), faderskapspresumtion (putative fatherhood), förment äktenskap (putative marriage). (various references) ซึ่งเป็นตามคำเล่าลือ. (various references) varsayılan (conjectural, supposed), meşru sayılan, kanuni sayılan, kabul edilen (accepted, acknowledged, adopted), farzedilen (assumed, reputed). (various references) уявний (fairy, fancied, fictitious, imaginary, notional, virtual, visionary), гаданий (apparent, assumptive, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, presumed, presumptive, quasi, reputed, superficial, suppositional, supposititious), мнимий (alleged). (various references) giả định l , được coi l (reputed), được cho l (alleged). (various references) tybiedig (supposed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | putativus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "putative": putatively. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "putative": imputative. (additional references) | |
Words containing "putative": imputatively. (additional references) | |
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"Putative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: optative, optatives, perative, puative, punative, puntative, puntitive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "putative" (pronounced pyuw"tutiv) |
| 5 | -t u t i v | anticompetitive, argumentative, competitive, consultative, exploitative, noncompetitive, preventative, rep, repetitive, representative, tentative, uncompetitive, unrepresentative. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, consecutive, conservative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, recuperative, relative, remunerative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, ultraconservative, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: pattie, vittae. | |
-3 letters: petit, petti, pieta, putti, taupe, vitae, vitta. | |
-4 letters: etui, pate, pave, peat, pita, putt, tape, tate, taut, teat, tepa, uvea, vatu, vita. | |
-5 letters: ait, ape, apt, ate, att, ave, eat, eau, eta, pat, pea, pet, pia, pie, pit, piu, put, tae, tap, tat, tau, tav, tea, tet, tie, tip, tit, tui. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-t-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: imputative, putatively, vituperate. | |
+3 letters: vituperated, vituperates, vituperator. | |
+4 letters: imputatively, putrefactive, vituperating, vituperation, vituperative, vituperators, vituperatory. | |
+5 letters: superactivity, vituperations. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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