He was the putative playboy of the librarian set.
Source: tatoeba (8985132)
Putative
//ˈpjuː.tə.tɪv//
Synonyms for "putative" (51 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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4 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 25 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ենթադրյալ adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Bulgarian
2 entries- мним adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- предполагаем adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Catalan
1 entries- putatiu adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 假定的 adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- 推定的 adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Czech
2 entries- domnělý adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- putativní adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Dutch
3 entries- vermeend adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- vermoedelijk adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- zogenaamd adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Estonian
2 entries- arvatav adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- oletatav adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Finnish
1 entries- oletettu adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
French
2 entries- présumé adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- putatif adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
German
3 entries- angeblich adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- mutmaßlich adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- vermeintlich adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Greek
2 entries- υποτιθέμενος adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- φερόμενος adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Hungarian
3 entries- feltételezett adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- vélelmezett adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- vélt adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Icelandic
1 entries- meintur adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Italian
1 entries- putativo adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Japanese
1 entries- 推定 adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Macedonian
2 entries- наводен adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- претпоставен adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Norwegian
3 entries- antatt adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- formentlig adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- formodet adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Polish
2 entries- domniemany adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- przypuszczalny adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Portuguese
1 entries- putativo adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Russian
3 entries- вероя́тный adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- мни́мый adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- предположи́тельный adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- navodan adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- pretpòstavljen adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- vjȅrojātan adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- вје̏роја̄тан adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Spanish
2 entries- presunto adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- supuesto adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Swedish
2 entries- förment adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- förmodad adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Turkish
3 entries- farz edilen adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- varsayılan adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- varsayımsal adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Ukrainian
2 entries- га́даний adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
- припусти́мий adj (commonly believed or deemed to be the case)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
The risks of such a project would clearly outweigh any putative benefit.
Source: tatoeba (9516767)
He's the putative leader of the bunch.
Source: tatoeba (9635807)
She's the putative leader of the bunch.
Source: tatoeba (9635810)
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