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SUPPOSITIONAL
| Main Entry: |
suppositional
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, asserted, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, inferential, likely, presumed, presumptive, presupposed, purported, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive |
| Main Entry: | conjectural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speculative |
| Synonyms: | academic, assumed, doubtful, figured, guessing, guesstimated, hypothetical, on a hunch, on a long shot, putative, reputed, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, surmised, surmising, suspect, tentative, theoretical, uncertain, unresolved |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, proven, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | hypothetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guessed, assumed |
| Synonyms: | academic, assumptive, casual, concocted, conditional, conjecturable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, debatable, disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite, indeterminate, postulated, presumptive, presupposed, pretending, problematic, provisory, putative, questionable, refutable, speculative, stochastic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suspect, theoretic, theoretical, uncertain, unconfirmed, vague |
| Antonyms: | calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, proven, real, reliable, truthful |
| Main Entry: | putative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonly believed |
| Synonyms: | accepted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, hypothetical, imputed, presumed, presumptive, reported, reputed, supposed, suppositional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | proven, real, true |
| Main Entry: | reputed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believed |
| Synonyms: | accounted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, considered, deemed, estimated, gossiped, held, hypothetical, ostensible, putative, reckoned, regarded, reported, rumored, said, seeming, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, thought |
| Antonyms: | actual, real, true |
| Main Entry: | theoretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, analytical, as a premise, assumed, codified, conjectural, contingent, formalistic, formularized, general, ideal, idealized, ideational, ideological, imaginative, impractical, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, intellectual, logical, metaphysical, notional, on paper, pedantic, philosophical, postulated, presumed, problematical, pure, quixotic, speculative, suppositional, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unproved, unsubstantiated, vague |
| Notes: | empirical describes results determined by experiment and observed behavior or facts; theoretical describes results that are based on guesswork or hypothesis - and pragmatic is contrasted with theoretical on the grounds that the former proceeds from what is demonstrably practical, the latter from conjecture |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, factual, proven, real |
| Main Entry: | hypothetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, asserted, conjectural, hypothetical, inferential, likely, presumed, presumptive, presupposed, purported, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive |
| Main Entry: | suppositious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, asserted, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, inferential, likely, presumed, presumptive, presupposed, purported, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive |
| Notes: | suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus' |
| Main Entry: | supposititious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supposed |
| Synonyms: | alleged, apparent, asserted, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, inferential, likely, presumed, presumptive, presupposed, purported, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive |
| Notes: | suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus' |
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