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pretenso — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ostensible adj Clearly shown or stated openly, for everyone to see.
  • purported adj Believed or claimed to be true.

Senses

pretenso is used for these senses in English:

  • ostensible Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).
  • purported Supposed, or assumed to be.

ostensible — full definition

  1. adj Clearly shown or stated openly, for everyone to see.
  2. adj Seeming to be true or real, though this may not actually be so.

purported — full definition

  1. adj Believed or claimed to be true.
  2. adj Generally taken to be true.
  3. adj Claimed by some people to be true or to have happened, though this might not actually be so.
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