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Alleged vs Putative - What's the difference?

alleged | putative |

As adjectives the difference between alleged and putative

is that alleged is contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; foolish while putative is commonly believed or deemed to be the case; accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.

As a verb alleged

is past tense of allege.

alleged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (allege)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; foolish

    • Anagrams

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    putative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.
  • * 1879 , Maurice Mauris, "A Materialistic Artist," New York Times , 9 Nov., p. 10:
    • [T]he lady . . . insisted upon going herself, requesting me to mind for a second the baby. . . . lo! the baby awoke and stared at me with a pair of big frightened eyes, which the little thing in another moment rolled in all directions, as if in search of its putative mother.
  • * 1989 , , " US must support Thailand if Cambodia is to survive," Milwaukee Sentinel'' ''(Los Angeles Times Service) , 28 Oct. (retrieved 15 Sep. 2009):
    • Just as Prince Sihanouk is fronting for the Khmer Rouge today . . . so also was he their putative leader from 1970 to 1975.
  • * 2006 , Unmesh Kher, " No Neat Endings for the JonBenet Case," Time , 18 Aug.:
    • Karr's past does raise suspicions. When he was arrested in Bangkok, he was living in a dormitory-like guesthouse in a neighborhood frequented by sex tourists. . . . Of course, Karr's putative pedophilia would not make him guilty of murder.

    Synonyms

    * ostensible, purported, reputed, supposed