'Hypothetical' definitions:
Definition of 'hypothetical'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
noun
A hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; "consider the following, just as a hypothetical"
Definition of 'Hypothetical'
From: GCIDE
- Hypothetic \Hy`po*thet"ic\, Hypothetical \Hy`po*thet"ic*al\, a. [L. hypotheticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. hypoth['e]tique.] Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. [1913 Webster]
- Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- Hypothetical baptism (Ch. of Eng.), baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before. --Hook. -- {Hy`po*thet"ic*al*ly}, adv. --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hypothetical'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a fortiori,
- a posteriori,
- a priori,
- abstract,
- academic,
- analytic,
- armchair,
- assumed,
- categorical,
- conditional,
- conjectural,
- conjectured,
- deductive,
- dialectic,
- discursive,
- doubtful,
- enthymematic,
- epagogic,
- guessed,
- hypothesized,
- hypothetic,
- ideal,
- imagined,
- impractical,
- inductive,
- inferential,
- maieutic,
- moot,
- notional,
- postulatory,
- presumed,
- problematic,
- putative,
- reputed,
- soritical,
- speculative,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- suppository,
- surmised,
- suspected,
- syllogistic,
- synthetic,
- theoretical,
- transcendent,
- transcendental