The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Dictionary Definition: 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.
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Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the
various phenomena of the existence of which our
experience informs us. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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{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.
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WordNet (r) 2.0 Dictionary Definition: hypothetical
adj : based on hypothesis; "a hypothetical situation"; "the site
of a hypothetical colony" [syn: {hypothetic}]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 Dictionary Definition: 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
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