'Supposititious' definitions:
Definition of 'supposititious'
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]
Definition of 'Supposititious'
From: GCIDE
- Supposititious \Sup*pos`i*ti"tious\, a. [L. suppositicus. See Supposition.]
- 1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. [R.] --Woodward. [1913 Webster] -- {Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'supposititious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accounted as,
- affected,
- airy,
- alleged,
- apocryphal,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- assumptive,
- autistic,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- chimeric,
- chimerical,
- colorable,
- colored,
- conjectural,
- conjectured,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deceptive,
- deemed,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- distorted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsified,
- fancied,
- fanciful,
- fantastic,
- fatherless,
- feigned,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- given,
- granted,
- hypothetical,
- illegitimate,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imaginational,
- imagined,
- imitation,
- inferred,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- misbegotten,
- misleading,
- mock,
- natural,
- nonexistent,
- notional,
- ostensible,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- postulated,
- postulational,
- premised,
- presumed,
- presumptive,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- putative,
- quasi,
- queer,
- reputed,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spurious,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- suppositive,
- suppository,
- synthetic,
- taken for granted,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unactual,
- unauthentic,
- understood,
- unfounded,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- visional,
- visionary,
- warped