putative
/ˈpjuːtətɪv
/adjective [attributive]
Generally considered or reputed to be: the putative father of her children...
- The cuckolded father is in this sense also a helper, but we do not use the term for putative fathers.
- Moyes does acknowledge that other putative claimants had seen the technology demonstrated.
- These large FKBPs contain the putative domains reported for interaction with Hsp 90 in animals.
Derivatives
putatively
- Or consider State of Emergency, a putatively radical riot simulator.
- The idea of having a single minister with responsibility for Scotland, Wales and - putatively - English regional government defies all common sense.
- It's startling to see putatively liberal moviemakers portray celibacy as a noble, selfless, even rational endeavor.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French putatif, -ive or late Latin putativus, from Latin putat- 'thought', from the verb putare.
- photogoniometer
- photogoniometric
- photogoniometry
- photogram
- photogrammeter
- photogrammetric
- photogrammetrical
- photogrammetrically
- photogrammetrist
- photogrammetry
- photograph
- photographable
- photographee
- photographer
- photographess
- photographic
- photographica
- photographical
- photographically
- photographic magnitude
- photographic memory
- photographic paper
- photographist
- photographize
- photography