предположи́тельный — meaning in English

English meaning

• purported adj Believed or claimed to be true.
• putative adj Widely believed or assumed to be true.
• tentative adjective Not yet certain or fixed; provisional, subject to change.

Senses

предположи́тельный is used for these senses in English:

• a priori (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
• purported Supposed, or assumed to be.
• putative Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.
• tentative Uncertain; subject to future change.

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.

putative — full definition

1. adj Widely believed or assumed to be true.
2. adj Accepted as true by assumption, not because it has been proved.
3. adj Claimed or said to be true, though not proved.
4. adj Likely to happen or become something in the future; expected.

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