| Putative (a.) Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. Thesaurus Entries accountable, accounted as, alleged, ascribable, assignable, assumed, assumptive, attributable, attributed, charged, conjectural, conjectured, credited, deemed, derivable from, derivational, derivative, due, explicable, given, granted, hypothetical, imputable, imputed, inferred, owing, postulated, postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, referable, referred to, reputed, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, taken for granted, traceable, understood |