Usually means: Generally regarded as, but unconfirmed.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word putative:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. putative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. putative: Merriam-Webster
  3. putative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. putative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. putative: Collins English Dictionary
  6. putative: Vocabulary.com
  7. Putative, putative: Wordnik
  8. putative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. putative: Wiktionary
  10. putative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. putative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. putative: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. putative: Dictionary.com
  14. putative: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Putative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Putative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. putative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Putative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. putative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. putative: FreeDictionary.org
  21. putative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. putative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. putative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -putative: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. putative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. putative: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. putative: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. putative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. putative: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See putatively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.
adjective:  Accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.
adjective:  Alleged, purported, ostensible, professed.
adjective:  (sometimes proscribed) Prospective, potential, proposed.

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