-adj. 26. fixed, set, secure, fastened, tight; stuck, glued, fast, cemented; stationary, motionless, static, still, at ease, at rest.
27. worded, phrased, presented, couched, styled; expressed, said, spoken, formulated. putative, adj. supposed, reputed, assumed, commonly believed, so-called, Fr. soi-disant; reported, stated, given, presumed, granted; alleged, presumptive, imputed, acknowledged, accepted, recognized, established, known; fabled, supposititious, pretended. put-down, n. 1. humiliation, mortification, embarrassment; abashment, debasement, abasement, selfabnegation, self-diminishment, self-abasement; comedown, deflation, letdown; disgrace, shame.
2. gibe, sneer, jeer, fleer; derision, Inf. dig, twit, taunt, retort, parting shot; quip, jape, Inf. swipe, crack, wisecrack. put-on, adj. 1. pretended, assumed, meretricious, sham; faked, simulated, Inf. phony, spurious, counterfeit, fake; falsified, feigned, colored; artificial, ersatz, unnatural, synthetic, plastic; alloyed, mixed, adulterated.
-n. 2. airs, affectation, show, pretense, front; facade, image, sham, artificiality, airs and graces.
3. mockery, mock, imitation, fake, counterfeit; hoax, swindle, rip-off, cheat, fraud, Inf. phony.
4. parody, spoof, farce, take-off; burlesque, caricature, mimicry, harlequinade. putrefy, v. rot, decay, go bad, deteriorate, disintegrate; decompose, addle, spoil, taint, curdle, stale, fust; putresce, stagnate, canker, fester, suppurate, sicken; Pathol, sphaculate, Pathol, mortify, Pathol. gangrene, Pathol, necrose. putrid, adj. 1. rotten, decaying, purulent, decomposed; diseased, saprogenic, gangrenous, bad, Pathol. sphaculate, Pathol, necrotic, Pathol, mortified; rancid, carious, stagnant, maggoty, wormy, worm-eaten; fetid, feculent, polluted, rank, Archaic, reechy; stale, sour, mildewy, moldy, fusty, frowzy; addled, curdled, spoiled, tainted, unclean, foul, flyblown, contaminated; fecal, excrementitious, Physiol, stercoraceous; putrescent, noxious, noisome, mephitic; ulcerous, suppurating, festering.
2. corrupt, depraved, vile, evil, wicked; foul, base, low, mean, scurvy, abominable, execrable; abhorrent, loathsome, despicable, odious, detestable, nasty, contemptible; malefic, virulent, malignant.
3. offensive, objectionable, bad; disgusting, repulsive, repellent, revolting; nauseating, sickening, filthy, fulsome. putter, v. 1. busy, fool around, trifle, fool with; fiddle, toy, play, Inf. monkey with, Inf. mess with; potter, piddle, fidget with, fribble, Inf. fiddle-faddle; tinker, dabble, footle, Sl. screw around with.