| Main Entry: |
unproved
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untried |
| Synonyms: | new, undemonstrated, unpracticed, unproven, untested |
| Main Entry: | illogical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not making sense |
| Synonyms: | absurd, casuistic, cockeyed, fallacious, false, fatuous, faulty, groundless, hollow, implausible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, incorrect, invalid, irrational, irrelevant, mad, meaningless, not following, nutty, off the wall, preposterous, screwy, self-contradictory, senseless, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spurious, unconnected, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, unsubstantial, untenable, wacky, without basis, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | correct, logical, meaningful, rational, reasonable, right, sensible |
| Main Entry: | pure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, philosophical, speculative, tentative, unproved |
| Antonyms: | applied |
| Main Entry: | speculative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, analytical, assumed, conceptive, dangerous, dicey, experimental, formularized, hairy, hazardous, hypothetical, ideal, idealized, ideological, iffy, in theory, intellectual, logical, notional, philosophical, presumed, risky, uncertain, unproved, unproven, unsubstantiated |
| 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: | untried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | callow, fledgling, fresh, green, immature, new, unattempted, unexpert, unfledged, unproved, untested |
| Antonyms: | established, tried |
| Main Entry: | untried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untested |
| Synonyms: | new, unproved, unproven |
| Main Entry: | unverified |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsubstantiated |
| Synonyms: | unproved, unproven |
| Main Entry: | theoretic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, analytical, as a premise, assumed, codified, conjectural, contingent, formalistic, formularized, general, hypothetic, hypothetical, 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 |