(a.) Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.

accountable accounted as affirmed announced ascribable asserted asseverated assignable assumed assumptive attested attributable attributed averred avouched avowed certified charged claimed compare conjectural conjectured credible credited declared deemed deposed derivable from derivational derivative described designated doubtful dubious due enunciated explicable given granted hypocritical hypothetical imputable imputed in name only inferred manifestoed ostensible owing plausible pledged postulated postulational predicated premised presumed presumptive pretended pretexted professed pronounced purported putative questionable referable referred to reputed self-styled so-called soi-disant specious stated supposed suppositional supposititious suppositive suspected sworn sworn to taken for granted traceable understood vouched vouched for vowed warranted would-be