| Hypothetical (a.) Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. Thesaurus Entries a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, abstract, academic, analytic, armchair, assumed, categorical, conditional, conjectural, conjectured, deductive, dialectic, discursive, doubtful, enthymematic, epagogic, guessed, hypothesized, hypothetic, ideal, imagined, impractical, inductive, inferential, maieutic, moot, notional, postulatory, presumed, problematic, putative, reputed, soritical, speculative, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, surmised, suspected, syllogistic, synthetic, theoretical, transcendent, transcendental |