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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
- Example: "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"
- Example: "the supposed reason for his absence"
- Example: "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"
- Example: "hypothetical situation"
[syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hypothetic adj 1: 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]