OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 16189

putative

/ˈpjuː.tə.tɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
presunto • supuesto
Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.
If they are in fact sound, then, of course, desire-utilitarianism need not account for the putative wrongness of infanticide.
Just as Prince Sihanouk is fronting for the Khmer Rouge today . . . so also was he their putative leader from 1970 to 1975.