Suppositional

3 definitions found

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

  Suppositional \Sup`po*si"tion*al\, a.
     Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.
     --South.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  suppositional
       adj : 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"; "supposititious hypotheses" [syn: {conjectural},
              {divinatory}, {supposed}, {suppositious}, {supposititious}]

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

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "suppositional":
     accounted as, alleged, arguable, assumed, assumptive, at issue,
     confutable, conjectural, conjectured, contestable, controversial,
     controvertible, debatable, deemed, deniable, disputable, doubtable,
     doubtful, dubious, dubitable, given, granted, hypothetical, iffy,
     in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inferred, mistakable,
     moot, open to doubt, open to question, postulated, postulational,
     premised, presumed, presumptive, problematic, putative,
     questionable, refutable, reputed, speculative, supposed,
     supposititious, suppositive, suppository, suspect, suspicious,
     taken for granted, understood