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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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... after the answer in the back of her mind while she listened to his voice, still with its impetuous tones unsubdued, though he seemed to be trying to state his hypothetical case ...

— The Fate of Felix Brand • Florence Finch Kelly

... existence notions borrowed from an alien sphere. Indeed, to assert that there has been any genuine development from the seed up to the finished tree is to use terms in an accommodated, metaphoric, and hypothetical way. Development there certainly has been as estimated by an outsider, an onlooker, but not as perceived by the tree itself. It has not known where it was going. Out of the unknown earth the seed pushes its way into the still less known air. But in doing so it is devoid of purpose. Nor, if we endow ...

— The Nature of Goodness • George Herbert Palmer

... the sublime performances of Hillquit, that which lays the brightest crown on his veracity was the answer he gave at Albany on February 17, 1920, to the long hypothetical question concerning the attitude of the Socialists should their friends of the Third International, the ...

— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... astral particle to any desired size, as though by a microscope—though no microscope ever made or ever likely to be made possesses even a thousandth part of this psychic magnifying power. By its means the hypothetical molecule and atom postulated by science become visible and living realities to the occult student, and on this closer examination he finds them to be much more complex in their structure than the ...

— Clairvoyance • Charles Webster Leadbeater

... table will indicate an hypothetical extreme case,—not infrequently met. In it a vertical shaft 1,500 feet in depth is taken as cutting the deposit at the depth of 750 feet, the most favored position so far as aggregate length of crosscuts is concerned. ...

— Principles of Mining - Valuation, Organization and Administration • Herbert C. Hoover

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