Synonyms for Theoretical:

• adj.

  •academic (adjective)
  • literary,
  • learned,
  • formalistic,
  • pedantic,
  • scholarly,
  • erudite,
  • bookish.
  •all (adjective)
  • theoretical.
  •conceptual (adjective)
  • more unapplied,
  • un-applied,
  • un applied,
  • most unapplied.
  •conjectural (adjective)
  • putative,
  • more surmised,
  • guesstimated,
  • more guesstimated,
  • un resolved,
  • more guessing,
  • most guessing,
  • un-resolved,
  • most guesstimated,
  • on hunch,
  • on long shot,
  • guessing,
  • most surmised,
  • more surmising,
  • most surmising,
  • most figured,
  • more figured.
  •dogmatic (adjective)
  • unerring,
  • un changeable,
  • un-erring,
  • un qualified,
  • peremptory,
  • most reasoned,
  • most excathedra,
  • more reasoned,
  • doctrinaire,
  • more doctrinal,
  • eternal,
  • as matter course,
  • most deductive,
  • as matter of course,
  • in-evitable,
  • most doctrinal,
  • un erring,
  • un-changeable,
  • more deductive,
  • as a matter course,
  • more excathedra,
  • un-qualified,
  • in evitable.
  •doubtful (adjective)
  • dis-composed,
  • most baffled,
  • un sure,
  • most agnostic,
  • more faltering,
  • un decided,
  • dis trustful,
  • most flustered,
  • dis composed,
  • un-convinced,
  • in decisive,
  • more agnostic,
  • more flustered,
  • most discomposed,
  • un settled,
  • most unconvinced,
  • most faltering,
  • dis-trustful,
  • un-decided,
  • most questioning,
  • dis concerted,
  • un-settled,
  • doubting,
  • more discomposed,
  • in quandary,
  • un-sure,
  • more baffled,
  • dis-concerted,
  • more questioning,
  • more unconvinced,
  • questioning,
  • in-decisive,
  • un convinced.
  •fundamental (adjective)
  • more axiological,
  • more foundational,
  • most meat and potatoes,
  • more underived,
  • under-lying,
  • in dispensable,
  • most foundational,
  • more bottom line,
  • most bottomline,
  • more sustaining,
  • grassroots,
  • in-dispensable,
  • un-derived,
  • more substrative,
  • un derived,
  • most axiological,
  • more bottom-line,
  • most meat-and-potatoes,
  • most substratal,
  • bottomline,
  • substratal,
  • more meat-and-potatoes,
  • elementary,
  • most bottom line,
  • more substratal,
  • most bottom-line,
  • more bottomline,
  • most grass-roots,
  • most fundamental,
  • sub-stratal,
  • more grass-roots,
  • para mount,
  • more grass roots,
  • grass roots,
  • under lying,
  • most underived,
  • elemental,
  • para-mount,
  • more grassroots,
  • sub stratal,
  • most sustaining,
  • most substrative,
  • most grassroots,
  • most grass roots,
  • more meat and potatoes,
  • grass-roots.
  •hypothetical (adjective)
  • general,
  • pure,
  • ideational,
  • intellectual,
  • quixotic,
  • contingent,
  • imaginative,
  • Instanced,
  • vague,
  • problematical,
  • in the abstract,
  • logical,
  • suppositional,
  • Postulated,
  • speculative,
  • on paper,
  • presumed,
  • analytical,
  • unearthly,
  • formularized,
  • in theory,
  • unproved,
  • tentative,
  • assumed,
  • as a premise,
  • notional,
  • unsubstantiated,
  • codified,
  • philosophical,
  • idealized.
  •ideal (adjective)
  • ivorytower,
  • un earthliest,
  • un-earthliest,
  • un-attainable,
  • highflown,
  • un earthlier,
  • un attainable,
  • most ivorytower,
  • in the clouds,
  • most ivory tower,
  • high flown,
  • more ivory-tower,
  • most out of reach,
  • more ivorytower,
  • more out-of-reach,
  • most out-of-reach,
  • un earthly,
  • un-earthlier,
  • most ideal,
  • more ivory tower,
  • most ivory-tower,
  • un-earthly,
  • more out of reach.
  •imaginary (adjective)
  • apparitional,
  • dreamed-up,
  • figmental,
  • Non-existent,
  • fictional.
  •immaterial (adjective)
  • ethereal,
  • immaterial,
  • incorporeal,
  • impalpable,
  • spiritual,
  • intangible,
  • unsubstantial,
  • imponderable,
  • bodiless,
  • supernatural,
  • eerie,
  • unworldly.
  •impractical/impracticable (adjective)
  • in-applicable,
  • more nogo,
  • un wiser,
  • un feasible,
  • un wisest,
  • in efficacious,
  • most inoperable,
  • un-wise,
  • infeasible,
  • most no go,
  • un-wisest,
  • out question,
  • more irrealizable,
  • most irrealizable,
  • most unbusinesslike,
  • irrealizable,
  • un-businesslike,
  • most no-go,
  • un-serviceable,
  • most nonfunctional,
  • out the question,
  • more inoperable,
  • un-feasible,
  • wont fly,
  • most nogo,
  • un serviceable,
  • in operable,
  • more infeasible,
  • in applicable,
  • more nonfunctional,
  • more impracticable,
  • in-efficacious,
  • starry eyed,
  • most unserviceable,
  • more no go,
  • more unbusinesslike,
  • non-viable,
  • un businesslike,
  • most nonviable,
  • more no-go,
  • illogical,
  • most infeasible,
  • in-feasible,
  • more unserviceable,
  • un-wiser,
  • more nonviable,
  • un wise,
  • in feasible,
  • not prayer,
  • in-operable,
  • starryeyed,
  • non viable,
  • non functional.
  •metaphysical (adjective)
  • jesuitic,
  • Unfleshly,
  • nonmaterial,
  • nonphysical,
  • oversubtle,
  • non-material,
  • Discarnate,
  • Supramundane,
  • unphysical,
  • supranatural,
  • suprahuman,
  • Supermundane,
  • superhuman,
  • non-physical.
  •suppositional (adjective)
  • Prophesied,
  • fantastic.
  •topical (adjective)
  • basic,
  • thematic,
  • topical,
  • subject,
  • axiomatic.
  •transcendent (adjective)
  • more pre eminent,
  • most pre-eminent,
  • most pre eminent,
  • more pre-eminent.
  •transcendent/transcendental (adjective)
  • in-tact,
  • most transmundane,
  • more unequalable,
  • un equalled,
  • most unrivalled,
  • in-finite,
  • sub lime,
  • more unequalled,
  • un rivalled,
  • most unequalable,
  • most exceeding,
  • more unrivalled,
  • trans-mundane,
  • sub-lime,
  • more surpassing,
  • most unequalled,
  • in finite,
  • un-rivalled,
  • more exceeding,
  • second none,
  • trans mundane,
  • more transcending,
  • un-paralleled,
  • in comparable,
  • un-equalled,
  • un paralleled,
  • in tact,
  • sur-passing,
  • most transcending,
  • in-comparable,
  • more transcendental,
  • most surpassing,
  • more transcendent,
  • pre eminent,
  • more transmundane.
  •unnegotiable (adjective)
  • un-negotiable,
  • un negotiable.
  •unreal (adjective)
  • reachy,
  • Storybook.
  •unrealistic (adjective)
  • un realistic,
  • more nonrealistic,
  • non realistic,
  • un-realistic,
  • most nonrealistic.
  •unusable (adjective)
  • un-usable,
  • un usable.
  •unworkable (adjective)
  • un-workable,
  • un workable.

• adv.

  •a priori (adverb)
  • more deduced,
  • based theory.

• adv

  •a priori (adverb)
  • based on theory.

• n.

  •
  • seemingly,
  • unfounded,
  • anecdotal,
  • apparently,
  • alleged,
  • allegedly.
  •abstractive (noun)
  • abstractive.
  •hypothetic (noun)
  • hypothetic.
  •hypothetical (noun)
  • hypothetical.
  •ideological (noun)
  • in the realm of ideas,
  • open to proof,
  • stated as a premise.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • contradictory,
  • mistaken,
  • preconceived,
  • chemistry,
  • muddle-headed,
  • privately,
  • fundamental,
  • simplistic,
  • received,
  • black and white,
  • popular,
  • inductive,
  • radical,
  • loud,
  • uncontroversial,
  • threadbare,
  • nonconformist,
  • inmost,
  • messianic,
  • discretionary,
  • critically,
  • compatible,
  • optimistic,
  • subjective,
  • technically,
  • innermost,
  • revisionist,
  • skewed,
  • deep,
  • utilitarian,
  • warmed-over,
  • literal,
  • strictly,
  • profound,
  • critical,
  • elegant,
  • ideological,
  • defensible,
  • deterministic,
  • ahistorical,
  • circular,
  • central,
  • thought-out,
  • confucian,
  • mechanistic,
  • contagious,
  • competing,
  • utopian,
  • orthodox,
  • introspective,
  • set,
  • holistic,
  • thoughtfully,
  • anthropocentric,
  • strict.
  •
  • ingrained,
  • absolutist,
  • current,
  • transcendental,
  • weak,
  • thoughtful,
  • positivist,
  • uncertain.
  •
  • fixed.
  •in name only
  • nominal.
  •Other relevant words:
  • contemplative,
  • technical,
  • noetic,
  • reputed,
  • taken for granted,
  • cerebral,
  • apparent,
  • theory,
  • esoteric,
  • experimental,
  • fictitious,
  • astrophysicist,
  • exploratory,
  • presumptive,
  • mentally,
  • closet,
  • rational,
  • calorie,
  • fairly,
  • Notionally,
  • unconfirmed,
  • made-up,
  • ratiocinative,
  • speculatively,
  • Supposing,
  • supposititious,
  • visionary,
  • theoretically,
  • suspected,
  • just,
  • intellectually,
  • divinatory,
  • aerodynamics,
  • ivory tower,
  • accepted,
  • putatively,
  • debatable,
  • cognitive,
  • untested,
  • nonobjective,
  • purely,
  • experiential,
  • illusive,
  • Suppositive,
  • completely,
  • fancifully,
  • kinetic,
  • unproven,
  • given,
  • mechanics,
  • Conjectured,
  • newtonian,
  • Theorized,
  • inquisitive,
  • artificial,
  • armchair,
  • dynamics,
  • Academical,
  • logically,
  • theoretic,
  • academically,
  • nonrepresentational,
  • imagined,
  • mental,
  • Surmised,
  • gratuitous,
  • Conjecturally,
  • Metaphysic,
  • fallacious,
  • Presupposed,
  • evident,
  • Speculated,
  • Guessed,
  • Postulatory,
  • hypothetically,
  • learnedly,
  • idealistic,
  • dynamic,
  • mythical,
  • studiously,
  • merely,
  • rationally,
  • Unpractical,
  • taken,
  • so-called,
  • supposedly,
  • prying,
  • moot,
  • Mooted,
  • hypothesized,
  • perfectly,
  • titular,
  • self-styled,
  • cogitative,
  • astrophysics,
  • purport,
  • abstractionist,
  • soi-disant,
  • supposable,
  • illusory,
  • make-believe,
  • theory-based,
  • token,
  • abstractly,
  • utterly,
  • perceptual,
  • expected,
  • suppositious,
  • nonfigurative,
  • fanciful,
  • soundly.

Paraphrases for Theoretical:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    theoretic, conceptual, notional.
  • Proper noun, singular
    conceptual, notional.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    theoretically.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    computational, philosophical, rhetorical, Imputed, pre-service, ideological, analytical, intellectual, formal, speculative, nominal, counterfactual, logical, principle, principled.
  • Verb, past tense
    predicted.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    hypothetical, theory, doctrinal, abstract, moot.
  • Proper noun, singular
    theory, Theories.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    theory, theorist.

Antonyms for Theoretical:

• adj.

  • all
    applied.
  • hypothetical
    definite, factual, material, ignorant, physical, objective, real, illogical, certain, proven, concrete, simple.
  • Other antonyms:
    clinical, attested, authenticated, noticeable, substantiated, demonstrated, discernible, distinct, trial and error, perceptible, sensible, appreciable, observable, visible, palpable, defined, verified, established, confirmed, validated, time-tested, tangible, empiric, tested, a posteriori, detectable.