Purport

/pɚˈpɔɹt/

Synonyms for "purport" (138 found)

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Closest matches (28)

academic acceptationaffective meaningaimaim atallege amount aspireaspire afteraspire toavowbe afterbearing body burden claim coloring connotation consequence core

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crux denotation

Noun(5 words)

aim assert claimclaimed purposecontent

Verb(1 words)

aim

Strong matches (41)

design desire destine determine driftdrive ateffect essence extension force gistgo forgrammatical meaningharbor a designhave every intentionidea impact implication import intend

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intendment intensionlexical meaningliteral meaningmatter mean meaning meat message ostensible overtone pertinence pith

Noun(8 words)

drift essence gist intend intent maintain mean meaning

Related words (69)

plan point pose postulatedpractical consequencepresupposed presupposition pretend pretended pretext profess professed project proposeprotest too muchpurported purposerange of meaningreal meaningreference

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referent relation relevance reputed resolve rumored scopesemantic clustersemantic fieldsense short significance significancy signification significatum signifie signify so-calledspan of meaningspeculative spirit strengthstructural meaningsubstance sumsum and substancesupposed suppositional suppositive suspectedsymbolic meaningtenor theoretical think thrusttotality of associationstransferred meaningunadorned meaningunderstanding undertone upshot value

Noun(5 words)

professprofessed intentionspiritstated aimsubstance

Verb(2 words)

propose purpose

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More general

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aim assert claim content declare import information intend intent mean meaning purpose significance

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More specific

13 entries

allege avercore messagedeclared objectivedesign essence gist intend maintain planprofessed goalstated objectivesubstance

Collocations

6 entries

purport of the documentpurport to bepurport to dopurport to havepurported meaningpurportedly true

Inflections

3 entries

purported purporting purports

Derivations

2 entries

purported purportedly

Sample sentences

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It’s quite obvious that the purport of these misanthropic theories consists in slandering the working masses, relieving imperialism from the responsibility for the bloody wars it provokes, and imposing the thought that wars are endless and are allegedly caused by aggressive tendencies in human nature.

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You purport to know what you're talking about; why don't you know about this?

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The text did not purport to be comprehensive.

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I do not purport to be an expert on this topic.

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