alleged

English

Pronunciation

• (verb form): IPA^(key): /əˈlɛdʒd/
• (adjective): IPA^(key): /əˈlɛdʒd/, /əˈlɛdʒɪd/ (latter chiefly North American)
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒd

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: al‧leged

Verb

alleged

1. simple past and past participle of allege

Adjective

alleged (not comparable)

1. Asserted (or supposed), but not proved.

   alleged crime

   alleged involvement

   The alleged thief was arrested yesterday.

   She denied the alleged wrongdoing.

   the alleged miracle

   the alleged cure-all

Usage notes

• Alleged and allegedly acknowledge doubt about the accuracy of an alleged claim; sometimes, especially by the media, the words are used even when the facts seem clear but have not been proven in a court of law, to avoid litigation (if someone is described by the media as a robber but then acquitted, that person might sue the media); sometimes, the words are used to cast doubt on something the speaker thinks is untrue.

Synonyms

• presumed

Derived terms

• allegedly
• forealleged
• nonalleged
• unalleged

Translations

asserted

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: առերեւոյթ (aṙerewoytʻ)
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: al·legat (ca), ^{(please verify)} presumpte
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 涉嫌的 (shèxián de), 聲稱的 / 声称的 (shēngchēng de), 斷言的 / 断言的 (duànyán de), ^{(please verify)} 據稱的 / 据称的 (jùchēng de), ^{(please verify)} 所謂的 / 所谓的 (suǒwèi de)

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} údajný (cs) m, ^{(please verify)} domnělý (cs)
• Danish: påstået, ^{(please verify)} antaget
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} verondersteld (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: väitetty (fi)
• French: supposé (fr), ^{(please verify)} prétendu (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: mutmaßlich (de)
• Greek: τάχα (el) (tácha), ^{(please verify)} δήθεν (el) (díthen)
• Hungarian: állítólagos (hu), ^{(please verify)} feltételezett (hu)
• Icelandic: meintur (is)
• Italian: asserito (it), ^{(please verify)} presunto (it)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: påstått, angivelig (no), antatt

• Polish: domniemany (pl), rzekomy (pl)
• Portuguese: alegado (pt), ^{(please verify)} suposto (pt)
• Romanian: presupus
• Russian: утвержда́емый (ru) (utverždájemyj), ^{(please verify)} предполага́емый (ru) (predpolagájemyj), ^{(please verify)} мни́мый (ru) (mnímyj)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: supuesto (es), alegado (es), asertado
• Swedish: påstådd (sv)
• Turkish: sözde (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

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