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Purported vs Undefined - What's the difference?

purported | undefined |

As adjectives the difference between purported and undefined

is that purported is supposed, or assumed to be while undefined is lacking a definition or value.

As a verb purported

is (purport).

purported

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Supposed, or assumed to be.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Philip E. Mirowski , title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , volume=100, issue=1, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
  • Normally assumed to be.
  • Said by some people to be real or true or to have happened, although this may not be so

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (purport)

    • Anagrams

    *

    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined