Supposititious

3 definitions found

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


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     2. Suppositional; hypothetical. [R.] --Woodward.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly}, adv. --
        {Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  supposititious
       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}, {suppositional}, {suppositious}]

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

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "supposititious":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, accounted as, affected, airy, alleged,
     apocryphal, apparent, apparitional, artificial, assumed,
     assumptive, autistic, 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