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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

purportedly en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /pɚˈpoɹ.tɪd.li/ (Canada, General-American)
  • audio Southeast US
  • [pɚˈpoɹ.ɾɪd.li] (Canada, General-American)
  • /pəˈpɔː.təd.li/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /pɚˈpoʊɹ.tɪd.li/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English purported Middle English -ly English -ly English purportedly From purported + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) As appears to be true or is stated or accepted to be (though might not be so).
    • In addition, none of the purportedly more common terms of these pairs appear to be especially frequent in modern Indian English. 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 120:
    • Australia is working to verify the authenticity of a video that purportedly shows one of its nationals captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine. 2024 December 23, Hilary Whiteman, “Australia investigates video purportedly showing national captured by Russian forces in Ukraine”, in CNN:
    • After several years Philip Rigoli left the property, describing his family as ‘strange and toxic’, but father Virgilio and brother Joe continued to develop their nation, maintaining that it was the only valid response to a government purportedly discriminating against ‘Christians, white Anglo-Saxons and capitalists’. 2022, Harry Hobbs, George Williams, “Motivations” (chapter 3), in Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 98:
    • Near-synonyms: reportedly, reputedly, putatively, rumoredly, supposedly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly

Synonyms

probably · reportedly · putatively · ostensibly · reputedly · likely · possibly · plausibly · rumoredly · allegedly · supposedly

Translations (14)

es presuntamente (as appears or is said to be true) · ga de réir dealraimh (as appears or is said to be true) · ru предположи́тельно (as appears or is said to be true) · fi oletettavasti (as appears or is said to be true) · mi ko te tikanga ... (as appears or is said to be true) · tr güya (as appears or is said to be true) · de angeblich (as appears or is said to be true) · fi mukamas (as appears or is said to be true) · de vorbeglich (as appears or is said to be true) · unm luwèn (as appears or is said to be true) · ga de réir cosúlachta (as appears or is said to be true) · cmn 表面上 (as appears or is said to be true) · de vermeintlich (as appears or is said to be true) · tr sözde (as appears or is said to be true)