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Hypothetic

adjective
1.
Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.  Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious.  "The supposed reason for his absence" , "Suppositious reconstructions of dead languages" , "Hypothetical situation"






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"Hypothetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the reasoning that we have just given at length, we have finally found the means by which the hypothetic bead was to be put in place. A little beyond the curves, a very small but perfectly conspicuous dot is engraved—the intersection of two lines of construction that it was doubtless desired to efface, but the scarcely visible trace of which subsists. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Hypothetic" :   theoretical, theoretic



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