adj
Meaning 1
Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hypothetical
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl/
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Canada, General-American: /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl/
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Canada, General-American: [ˌhaɪpəˈθɛɾɪkəɫ]
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Canada, General-American: [ˌhaɪpəˈθɛɾɪkɫ̩]
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adj
Meaning 2
Conditional; contingent upon some hypothesis/antecedent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A possible or hypothetical situation or proposition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- These hypotheticals serve no purpose until we have more information.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
- the supposed reason for his absence
- suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
- hypothetical situation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- consider the following, just as a hypothetical
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hypothesis, possibility, theory
History
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὑποθετικός (hupothetikós).
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: اِفْتِرَاضِيّ (iftirāḍiyy) — based upon a hypothesis
- Belarusian: гіпатэты́чны (hipatetýčny) — based upon a hypothesis
- Bulgarian: хипотети́чен (hipotetíčen) — based upon a hypothesis
- Catalan: hipotètic — based upon a hypothesis
- Chinese Mandarin: 假設的 /假设的 (jiǎshè de) — based upon a hypothesis
- Chinese Mandarin: 假定的 (jiǎdìng de) — based upon a hypothesis
- Czech: hypotetický — based upon a hypothesis
- Danish: hypotetisk — based upon a hypothesis
- Finnish: hypoteettinen — based upon a hypothesis
- French: hypothétique — based upon a hypothesis
- Galician: hipotético — based upon a hypothesis
- Georgian: ჰიპოთეტიური (hiṗoteṭiuri) — based upon a hypothesis
- German: hypothetisch — based upon a hypothesis
- Greek: υποθετικός (ypothetikós) — based upon a hypothesis
- Hindi: काल्पनिक (kālpanik) — based upon a hypothesis
- Icelandic: reistur á tilgátu — based upon a hypothesis
- Icelandic: reist á tilgátu — based upon a hypothesis
- Icelandic: skilyrtur — based upon a hypothesis
- Icelandic: skilyrt — based upon a hypothesis
- Italian: ipotetico — based upon a hypothesis
- Japanese: 仮定の (katei no) — based upon a hypothesis
- Kazakh: гипотезалық (gipotezalyq) — based upon a hypothesis
- Kazakh: болжаулық (boljaulyq) — based upon a hypothesis
- Korean: 가설적 (gaseoljeok) — based upon a hypothesis
- Malay: andaian — based upon a hypothesis
- Norwegian Bokmål: hypotetisk — based upon a hypothesis
- Norwegian Bokmål: tenkt — based upon a hypothesis
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hypotetisk — based upon a hypothesis
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tenkt — based upon a hypothesis
- Persian: فرضی (farzi) — based upon a hypothesis
- Polish: hipotetyczny — based upon a hypothesis
- Portuguese: hipotético — based upon a hypothesis
- Romanian: ipotetic — based upon a hypothesis
- Russian: гипотети́ческий (gipotɛtíčeskij) — based upon a hypothesis
- Slovak: hypotetický — based upon a hypothesis
- Spanish: hipotético — based upon a hypothesis
- Swedish: hypotetisk — based upon a hypothesis
- Tagalog: palagayin — based upon a hypothesis
- Turkish: kuramsal — based upon a hypothesis
- Turkish: nazari — based upon a hypothesis
- Turkish: varsayımlı — based upon a hypothesis
- Turkish: varsayımsal — based upon a hypothesis
- Turkish: farazi — based upon a hypothesis
- Ukrainian: гіпотети́чний (hipotetýčnyj) — based upon a hypothesis
Real reading context