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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

... suggests that he has recently managed a Starr opera bouffe enterprise; and Mr. STODDART is happy in the congenial character of a Clumsy Trumpeter. If any speculative manager pretends that he has a better hypothetical cast in his eye than the present cast of the Lancers, let him be given to the surgical tormentors to be operated ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 9, May 28, 1870 • Various

... of the book in Spain earlier than 1524: (ii) that this had been translated into French, also before 1524, although the version of Bertaut in 1531 is the earliest French translation we have any trace of: (iii) that Berners himself had come across this hypothetical French edition, again before 1524: and (iv) that the French translation had so faithfully reproduced the style of the original, that Berners was able to translate it from French into English, for the purpose of his ...

— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson

... influence of that insidious mildew which eventually forms on all but the few, gave itself up furiously to every indignation of the age. From an armchair in the office of his Tarrytown estate he directed against the enormous hypothetical enemy, unrighteousness, a campaign which went on through fifteen years, during which he displayed himself a rabid monomaniac, an unqualified nuisance, and an intolerable bore. The year in which this story opens found him wearying; his campaign had grown desultory; 1861 was ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... i.e., of being the instrument of our delivery. The statement is of course hypothetical, and the future is used, instead of the conditional, only for greater directness ...

— Esther • Jean Racine

... in his hypothetical oscillating ether of the nerves, which is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation to sight, ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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