hypothetical - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'hypothetical' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hypothetical

[ a.]

- 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.

Meaning of 'hypothetical' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . hypothetical

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.

Example in sentence:

consider the following, just as a hypothetical

2 . hypothetical

[ s]

Meaning (2):
- based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

Example in sentence:

hypothetical situation;
suppositious reconstructions of dead languages;
the supposed reason for his absence;
theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural

Nearby Words:

hyp hypaethral hypallage hypanthia hypanthium hypanthiums hypapophyles hypapophysis hyparterial hypaspist

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Hypothetical construct
Hypothetical construct means a fiction or story put forward by a theorist to make sense of a phenomenon. An integral part of scientific advance, it applies

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