What is another word for hypothetical?
362 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ hˌa͡ɪpəθˈɛtɪkə͡l], [ hˌaɪpəθˈɛtɪkəl], [ h_ˌaɪ_p_ə_θ_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_k_əl]
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Similar words for hypothetical:
- abstract (adjective)
- academic (adjective)
- assumed (adjective)
- believed (adjective)
- conjectural (adjective)
- hypothetic (adjective)
- hypothetical (adjective)
- imaginary (adjective)
- intangible (adjective)
- nonexistent (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- possible (adjective)
- putative (adjective)
- questionable (adjective)
- reputed (adjective)
- speculative (adjective)
- suppositional (adjective)
- theoretic (adjective)
- topical (adjective)
- transcendent (adjective)
- transcendent/transcendental (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
Synonyms for Hypothetical:
adj.
• abstract (adjective) • academic (adjective) • assumed (adjective)- given,
- Inferred,
- presumed,
- understood,
- counted on,
- Conjectured,
- Connoted,
- Surmised,
- accepted,
- hypothesized,
- tacit,
- granted.
- equivocal,
- pretending,
- provisory,
- problematic,
- conditional,
- unconfirmed,
- vague,
- theoretical,
- contingent,
- imagined,
- indeterminate,
- casual,
- Postulated,
- refutable,
- contestable,
- assumptive,
- debatable,
- putative,
- suppositious,
- stochastic,
- indefinite,
- Presupposed,
- doubtful,
- suppositional,
- Concocted,
- disputable,
- Conjecturable,
- suspect.
- fancied,
- shadowy,
- illusive,
- unsubstantial,
- phantasmic,
- legendary,
- fantastic,
- imaginative,
- apocryphal,
- mythological,
- deceptive,
- hallucinatory,
- spectral,
- dreamed-up,
- dreamy,
- figmental,
- supposititious,
- apparitional,
- whimsical,
- fictional,
- delusive,
- phantasmal,
- trumped up,
- fool's paradise.
- impalpable,
- imponderable,
- evasive,
- airy,
- unsure,
- ethereal,
- imperceptible,
- slender,
- rare,
- unapparent,
- eluding,
- unobservable,
- evanescent,
- elusive,
- inappreciable,
- dim,
- invisible,
- insensible,
- slight,
- Evading,
- incorporeal.
- gone,
- null and void,
- vacant,
- empty,
- departed,
- Gossamery,
- extinguished,
- void,
- Non-existent,
- without foundation,
- negative,
- defunct,
- missing,
- immaterial,
- extinct,
- vaporous,
- tenuous,
- groundless,
- absent,
- baseless,
- ungrounded,
- dead,
- blank,
- lost,
- few and far between,
- null,
- flimsy,
- passed on,
- passed away,
- Perished.
- paradoxical,
- academic,
- nonexistent,
- under examination,
- hard to believe,
- suppository,
- unrivalled,
- transcendent,
- transmundane,
- supposed,
- possible,
- speculative,
- Accounted,
- open to question,
- taken as known,
- open to doubt,
- theoretic,
- ideal,
- nonconcrete,
- conceptive,
- under advisement,
- taken for granted,
- Unequalable,
- in theory,
- questionable,
- imaginary,
- on a hunch,
- ivory-tower,
- Controvertible,
- ideological,
- out-of-reach,
- in clouds,
- unequalled,
- beyond grasp,
- divinatory,
- on a long shot,
- intangible,
- out of reach,
- unproven,
- conjectural,
- second to none,
- pre-eminent.
- feasible,
- snap,
- snapper,
- latent,
- pushover,
- credible,
- conceivable,
- dependent,
- desirable,
- fortuitous,
- easy as pie,
- within reach,
- adventitious,
- obtainable,
- probable,
- viable,
- setup,
- cincher,
- accessible,
- hopeful,
- realizable,
- doable,
- thinkable,
- promising,
- potential,
- can do,
- advisable,
- expedient,
- piece of cake,
- cinch,
- dormant,
- achievable,
- simple as abc,
- no sweat,
- duck soup,
- workable,
- practicable,
- welcome,
- imaginable,
- available.
- more paradoxical,
- un defined,
- most unconfirmed,
- un settled,
- un-defined,
- open doubt,
- more unconfirmed,
- most unproven,
- dubitable,
- pro visional,
- in decisive,
- most paradoxical,
- un proven,
- un-proven,
- more controvertible,
- un-reliable,
- un reliable,
- hard believe,
- un-confirmed,
- more unproven,
- in-decisive,
- un confirmed,
- un-settled,
- most controvertible.
- more suppository,
- more reckoned,
- most gossiped,
- most regarded,
- most reckoned,
- more deemed,
- more gossiped,
- most suppository,
- more thought,
- most thought,
- more regarded,
- most accounted,
- most deemed,
- more accounted.
- more ideological,
- more formularized,
- un proved,
- un-proved,
- un substantiated,
- formularized,
- more conceptive,
- un-substantiated,
- most conceptive,
- most idealized,
- more idealized,
- most formularized,
- most ideological,
- unproved.
- more unequalled,
- most unequalled,
- in-tact,
- most transmundane,
- in-finite,
- in comparable,
- more transmundane,
- sub lime,
- most transcending,
- super natural,
- most exceeding,
- in finite,
- more unrivalled,
- un-paralleled,
- in tact,
- most unrivalled,
- sur-passing,
- most surpassing,
- more unequalable,
- more transcending,
- most unequalable,
- trans-mundane,
- in-comparable,
- sub-lime,
- second none,
- trans mundane,
- more exceeding,
- un-rivalled,
- pre eminent,
- more surpassing,
- un-equalled,
- un rivalled,
- more transcendent,
- un equalled,
- more transcendental,
- super-natural,
- un paralleled.
n.
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- false,
- synthetic,
- fake,
- fictitious.
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- presumptive,
- Suppositive,
- belief.
Other synonyms:
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- fictive,
- fabulous,
- mock,
- otherworldly,
- notional,
- contrived,
- fabled,
- pretended,
- illusory,
- simulated,
- faux,
- insubstantial,
- made-up,
- bogus.
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- phantom,
- mythical,
- cardboard,
- circumstantial,
- phony,
- dummy,
- inferential,
- uncertain,
- transcendental.
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- artificial,
- mimic.
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- put on.
How to use "Hypothetical" in context?
A hypothetical is a thought experiment involving two or more possible outcomes. It is an abstraction, and can be used to explore uncharted territory.
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Independent
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Adjective
abstract, alleged, conceptual, dummy, explanatory, interpretative, mock, phantom, possible, potential, presumed, simulated, supposed, would-be, Postulated.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
assumed, counterfactual, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hypothesis, imaginary, notional, presumptive, putative, speculative, tentative, theoretical, uncertain.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Hypothetical:
n.
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cognition
possibility, theory, hypothesis.
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cognition
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being concerned with
- Synonyms:
- adopt, advert, affect, affiance, apply, ask, assimilate, assist, assume, attend to.