Dictionary Definition
purport
Noun
2 general meaning or tenor; "caught the drift of
the conversation" [syn: drift]
Verb
1 have the often specious appearance of being,
intending, or claiming; "The letter purports to express people's
opinion"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
Translations
convey
- Dutch: beweren,
appear to be claiming
- Dutch: laten uitschijnen, schijnen te
Noun
- import, intention or purpose
- 1748, David Hume,
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
- 1748, David Hume,
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Translations
import
- Dutch: doel, intentie, gewicht
- Portuguese: propósito
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
academic, acceptation, affective
meaning, aim, aim at,
allege, aspire after,
aspire to, avow, be after,
bearing, burden, claim, coloring, connotation, consequence, core, denotation, design, desire, destine, determine, drift, drive at, effect, essence, extension, force, gist, go for, grammatical meaning,
harbor a design, have every intention, idea, impact, implication, import, intend, intendment, intension, lexical meaning,
literal meaning, matter,
mean, meaning, meat, message, ostensible, overtone, pertinence, pith, plan, point, postulated, practical
consequence, presupposed, pretend, pretended, pretext, profess, professed, project, propose, protest too much,
purported, purpose, range of meaning, real
meaning, reference,
referent, relation, relevance, reputed, resolve, rumored, scope, semantic cluster, semantic
field, sense, significance, significancy, signification, significatum, signifie, so-called, span of
meaning, speculative, spirit, structural meaning,
substance, sum, sum and substance, supposed, suppositional, suppositive, suspected, symbolic meaning,
tenor, theoretical, think, thrust, totality of associations,
transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, understanding, undertone, upshot, value