hypothetical
US: /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtəkəɫ/, /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəɫ/
UK: /hˌaɪpəθˈɛtɪkəl/
UK: /hˌaɪpəθˈɛtɪkəl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
hypothetical
- Cách viết khác : hypothetic
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
based on situations or ideas which are possible and imagined rather than real and true: a hypothetical question / situation / example + Let us take the hypothetical case of Sheila, a mother of two ... + I wasn't asking about anybody in particular-it was a purely hypothetical question.
hypothetically adverb
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
assumed, supposed, conjectural, conjectured, hypothesized, putative, surmised, assumed, presumed, suspected, imagined, guessed, speculative, speculated, theoretical, suppositional, suppositious or supposititious:
Let us take the hypothetical case of someone, for example, who refuses to pay income tax.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be
This is a purely hypothetical situation.
ADV.
entirely, purely, totally
Concise English dictionary
noun
+a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.
adj.
+based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
