Hypothetical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hypothetical
       adj : based on hypothesis; "a hypothetical situation"; "the site
             of a hypothetical colony" [syn: {hypothetic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "hypothetical":
     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