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/hˌaɪpəθˈɛtəkəl/ /hˌaɪpəθˈɛtɪkəl/ Listen

Hypothetical

adjective

Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence. Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious. "The supposed reason for his absence" , "Suppositious reconstructions of dead languages" , "Hypothetical situation"

noun

A hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc..

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"Hypothetical" Quotes from Famous Books

... The reader will receive this hypothetical statement as he finds it agreeable, or not, to his own experience,—a better guide, in all probability, than mere philosophy. The writer has his doubts upon the subject. But let every one judge for himself. For his part, he is convinced that frequent contemplation of death, ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr

... they are sustained and fed in divers places. It is now sufficiently known by experience of what things they are the causes in the State; how indiscriminately they bring forth fruit, of which good men and wise rightly do repent. If there should be in any place a State, either actual or hypothetical, that wantonly and tyrannically wages war upon the Christian name, and it have conferred upon it that character of which we have spoken, it is possible that this may be considered more tolerable; yet the principles upon which it rests ...

— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 • Various

... up quickly. There was nothing in his ordinary, good-humored, but not very strong face to suggest that he himself was the subject of this hypothetical case. If he were speaking for Tournelli, the Italian certainly was not to be congratulated on his ambassador's prudence; and, above all, Manners was to be warned of the interpretation which might be put upon his counsels, and disseminated thus publicly. ...

— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... duffer," he said affectionately to himself. "He's playing go to the hotel, I suppose. Perhaps when that imagination of his gets to work at hypothetical bread and butter he'll find the reality ...

— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond

... moment of writing these words, a letter from a well known plant breeder is dropped upon my desk. In it he turns down the idea of an hypothetical executive position which most people would regard as promotion. The importance and interest of his work is so great in its own right that he ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report - at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 • Various

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