Putative
Putative adjective - Appearing to be true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be confirmed.
Tentative
Tentative adjective - Determined by something else.
Putative and tentative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Putative" instead an adjective "Tentative".
Nearby Word: tentatively
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- questionable and putative
- questionable and tentative
- doubtful and putative
- doubtful and tentative
- hypothetical and putative
- hypothetical and tentative
- theoretical and putative
- theoretical and tentative
- supposed and putative
- supposed and tentative
- conjectural and putative
- conjectural and tentative
- speculative and putative
- speculative and tentative
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