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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asserted, often doubtful |
| Synonyms: | averred, declared, described, dubious, ostensible, pretended, professed, purported, questionable, so-called, stated, supposed, suspect, suspicious |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, sure |
| Main Entry: | nominal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed, theoretical |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, as advertised, formal, given, honorary, in effect only, in name only, mentioned, named, ostensible, pretended, professed, puppet, purported, seeming, self-styled, simple, so-called, stated, suggested, titular |
| Notes: | nominal means insignificantly small; minimal means the least possible or smallest in amount and degree |
| Antonyms: | actual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | putative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonly believed |
| Synonyms: | accepted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, hypothetical, imputed, presumed, presumptive, reported, reputed, supposed, suppositional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | proven, real, true |
| Main Entry: | reputed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believed |
| Synonyms: | accounted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, considered, deemed, estimated, gossiped, held, hypothetical, ostensible, putative, reckoned, regarded, reported, rumored, said, seeming, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, thought |
| Antonyms: | actual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | so-called |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, allegedly, commonly named, formal, itular, nominal, ostensible, pretended, professed, purported, self-named, self-styled, soi-disant, wrongly named |
| Main Entry: | supposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | presumed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, assumed, conjectural, hypothetical, putative, reputed, supposititious, theoretical |
| Main Entry: | supposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | assumed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, asserted, likely, presumed, presupposed, purported |
| Main Entry: | witnessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | observed and attested |
| Synonyms: | alleged, authenticated, endorsed, substantiated, supported, sworn to, valid, validated, verified, vouched for |
| Main Entry: | hypothetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, asserted, conjectural, hypothetical, inferential, likely, presumed, presumptive, presupposed, purported, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive |
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