purport
Claim to be
Purport has two related uses.
As a verb, to purport is to claim or profess, often with an implication of doubt: The document purports to be authentic.
As a noun, purport is the meaning or substance of something: the purport of his remarks.
Both suggest surface appearance that may not match reality.
Quality of mattering
- gistCentral meaning distilled
- substancePhysical material with mass
- driftGradual movement, no direction
- tenorEssential meaning or import
thrust · sense · essence · bearing · signification · point · message · content
Assertion lacking proof
- assertionConfident statement of fact
- declarationFormal public announcement
- contentionAssertion or rivalry
- avowalOpen declaration of belief
proclamation · protestation · statement · representation · profession · averment · affirmation · maintain
Pretend to have
- shamFraudulent imitation
- guiseExternal manner shown
- façadeFalse outward appearance
- masqueradeDeceptive act or costume party
pose · pretend · misrepresent · allegedly · ostensibly · supposedly · seemingly · appear
significance
Quality of mattering
- gistCentral meaning distilled
- substancePhysical material with mass
- driftGradual movement, no direction
tenor · thrust · sense · essence · bearing · signification · point · message · content · intent
allegation
Assertion lacking proof
- assertionConfident statement of fact
- declarationFormal public announcement
- contentionAssertion or rivalry
avowal · proclamation · protestation · statement · representation · profession · averment · affirmation · maintain · assert
feign
Pretend to have
masquerade · pose · pretend · misrepresent · allegedly · ostensibly · supposedly · seemingly · appear · deception
suggest
Offer an idea indirectly
intimate · denote · express · communicate · allude · insinuate · hint · connote
- meaningmeaning, sense, significance, denotation, definition
- glossematicscommutation, content, expression, schema, norm
- signsstop sign, sign, signs, road sign, exit
purportprove
Establish as fact
verify · authenticate · confirm · substantiate · demonstrate
purportinsignificance
Lack of consequence or weight
surface · exterior · triviality · outside · meaninglessness
- on purposeDone with deliberate intent
- defeat the purposeNegate intended outcome
- all-purpose flourGeneral-use milled wheat
- accidentally on purposeIntentionally feigning accident
- common purposeGoal held by many
- divine purposeSacred reason for existence