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hypo thetical
adjective as in intangible
Strong matches
adjective as in nonexistent
Weak matches
- airy
- baseless
- blank
- chimerical
- dead
- defunct
- departed
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- empty
- ethereal
- extinct
- extinguished
- fancied
- few and far between
- flimsy
- gone
- gossamery
- groundless
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- imponderable
- insubstantial
- legendary
- lost
- missing
- mythical
- null
- null and void
- passed away
- passed on
- perished
- shadowy
- ungrounded
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- vague
- vaporous
- void
- without foundation
adjective as in assumed
adjective as in abstract
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in possible
adjective as in putative
adjective as in questionable
Weak matches
- apocryphal
- contingent
- controvertible
- cryptic
- disputable
- dubitable
- enigmatic
- equivocal
- fishy
- hard to believe
- hypothetical
- iffy
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- moot
- mysterious
- obscure
- occult
- open to doubt
- open to question
- oracular
- paradoxical
- problematical
- provisional
- shady
- suspect
- unconfirmed
- undefined
- under advisement
- under examination
- unreliable
- unsettled
adjective as in reputed
adjective as in academic
Strongest matches
Strong match
Weak matches
adjective as in speculative
adjective as in transcendent/transcendental
Weak matches
- absolute
- abstract
- accomplished
- beyond grasp
- boundless
- consummate
- entire
- eternal
- exceeding
- fantastic
- finished
- hypothetical
- ideal
- incomparable
- infinite
- innate
- intact
- intellectual
- intuitive
- matchless
- obscure
- original
- otherworldly
- peerless
- perfect
- preeminent
- primordial
- second to none
- sublime
- supernatural
- supreme
- surpassing
- theoretical
- towering
- transcending
- transmundane
- ultimate
- unequalable
- unequalled
- unique
- unparalleled
- unrivalled
- whole
adjective as in transcendent
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absolute
- accomplished
- beyond grasp
- boundless
- consummate
- entire
- eternal
- exceeding
- finished
- hypothetical
- ideal
- incomparable
- infinite
- innate
- intact
- intellectual
- intuitive
- matchless
- obscure
- original
- peerless
- perfect
- pre-eminent
- primordial
- superior
- supreme
- surpassing
- theoretical
- towering
- transcendental
- transcending
- transmundane
- unequalable
- unequalled
- unique
- unparalleled
- unrivalled
- whole
adjective as in supposed
Strong match
Weak matches
adjective as in divinatory
adjective as in hypothetic
adjective as in hypothetic
adjective as in notional
Weak matches
- abstract
- apocryphal
- apparitional
- assumed
- chimeric
- chimerical
- conceptual
- deceptive
- delusive
- dreamed-up
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- fabulous
- fancied
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fictional
- figmental
- fool's paradise
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- ideal
- illusive
- illusory
- imaginative
- imagined
- legendary
- made-up
- mythological
- nonexistent
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- quixotic
- shadowy
- spectral
- supposed
- supposititious
- theoretical
- trumped-up
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- visionary
- whimsical
adjective as in suppositional
adjective as in suppositious
adjective as in supposititious
adjective as in suppositive
adjective as in theoretic
Weak matches
- 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
adjective as in conjectural
adjective as in hypothetical
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in ideal
adjective as in imaginary
Weak matches
adjective as in intangible
Strong matches
adjective as in nonexistent
Weak matches
- airy
- baseless
- blank
- chimerical
- dead
- defunct
- departed
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- empty
- ethereal
- extinct
- extinguished
- fancied
- few and far between
- flimsy
- gone
- gossamery
- groundless
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- imponderable
- insubstantial
- legendary
- lost
- missing
- mythical
- null
- null and void
- passed away
- passed on
- perished
- shadowy
- ungrounded
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- vague
- vaporous
- void
- without foundation
adjective as in assumed
adjective as in abstract
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in possible
adjective as in putative
adjective as in questionable
Weak matches
- apocryphal
- contingent
- controvertible
- cryptic
- disputable
- dubitable
- enigmatic
- equivocal
- fishy
- hard to believe
- hypothetical
- iffy
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- moot
- mysterious
- obscure
- occult
- open to doubt
- open to question
- oracular
- paradoxical
- problematical
- provisional
- shady
- suspect
- unconfirmed
- undefined
- under advisement
- under examination
- unreliable
- unsettled
adjective as in reputed
adjective as in academic
Strongest matches
Strong match
Weak matches
adjective as in speculative
adjective as in transcendent/transcendental
Weak matches
- absolute
- abstract
- accomplished
- beyond grasp
- boundless
- consummate
- entire
- eternal
- exceeding
- fantastic
- finished
- hypothetical
- ideal
- incomparable
- infinite
- innate
- intact
- intellectual
- intuitive
- matchless
- obscure
- original
- otherworldly
- peerless
- perfect
- preeminent
- primordial
- second to none
- sublime
- supernatural
- supreme
- surpassing
- theoretical
- towering
- transcending
- transmundane
- ultimate
- unequalable
- unequalled
- unique
- unparalleled
- unrivalled
- whole
adjective as in transcendent
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absolute
- accomplished
- beyond grasp
- boundless
- consummate
- entire
- eternal
- exceeding
- finished
- hypothetical
- ideal
- incomparable
- infinite
- innate
- intact
- intellectual
- intuitive
- matchless
- obscure
- original
- peerless
- perfect
- pre-eminent
- primordial
- superior
- supreme
- surpassing
- theoretical
- towering
- transcendental
- transcending
- transmundane
- unequalable
- unequalled
- unique
- unparalleled
- unrivalled
- whole
adjective as in supposed
Strong match
Weak matches
adjective as in divinatory
adjective as in hypothetic
adjective as in hypothetic
adjective as in notional
Weak matches
- abstract
- apocryphal
- apparitional
- assumed
- chimeric
- chimerical
- conceptual
- deceptive
- delusive
- dreamed-up
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- fabulous
- fancied
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fictional
- figmental
- fool's paradise
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- ideal
- illusive
- illusory
- imaginative
- imagined
- legendary
- made-up
- mythological
- nonexistent
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- quixotic
- shadowy
- spectral
- supposed
- supposititious
- theoretical
- trumped-up
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- visionary
- whimsical
adjective as in suppositional
adjective as in suppositious
adjective as in supposititious
adjective as in suppositive
adjective as in theoretic
Weak matches
- 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
adjective as in conjectural
adjective as in hypothetical
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in ideal
adjective as in imaginary
Weak matches
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On this page you'll find 782 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hypo-thetical, such as: ethereal, unreal, abstract, eluding, hypothetical, and impalpable.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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