putative
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Generally supposed or assumed to exist or to be the case.
The putative benefits of the intervention have yet to be demonstrated.
Medicine adjective
Generally assumed or believed to be the case, though not yet proven.
The discharge summary named a viral infection as the putative cause of the rash.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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