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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:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. [R.] --Woodward. [1913 Webster] -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

supposititious 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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