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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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... yet. It's a hypothetical question—yes, hypothetical. I'm sure that's what I want to say. Hypo—hypothetical question. Question; yes, that's right. Now, suppose you'd been a pretty wild young shark, and had kept your mother anxious and miserable, and had drifted into ...

— The Ape, the Idiot & Other People • W. C. Morrow

... be discovered, I shall still continue to believe that it is more safe to trust what we have already tried; and cannot but think bread a product of too much importance to be made the sport of subtilty, and the topick of hypothetical disputation. ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume V: Miscellaneous Pieces • Samuel Johnson

... original of Marco Polo to render intelligible. We can suppose a tribe of Indians or Blacks not far from Gombroon, to have been under the rule of a mussel man Sultan, and conquered or subverted by a Tartar expedition from Touran, or the north of Persia: But this remains a mere hypothetical explanation.—E. ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr

... party, when the necessity of seeming impartial procures for the opposite arguments a much more fair statement than that which he affords it in tacit meditation. Having finished what he had to say, David thought himself obliged to be more explicit in point of fact, and to explain that this was no hypothetical case, but one on which (by his own influence and that of the Duke of Argyle) Reuben Butler would soon ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... may not be improper to record, nevertheless, that the confessions of two persons, (one of them the Madame Deluc of the narrative) made, at different periods, long subsequent to the publication, confirmed, in full, not only the general conclusion, but absolutely all the chief hypothetical details by which ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

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