Meaning & use
purported
Claimed or alleged to be true or to have happened, though not proven or necessarily accurate.
See it in a sentence
The purported cure for the illness turned out to have no scientific support at all.
Police investigated the purported eyewitness who claimed to have seen the accident.
A note on using this word
Purported signals the writer's doubt or neutrality about a claim and is common in careful journalism and legal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
allegedsupposed
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Words with an opposite meaning
confirmedverified
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