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theoretical
adjective as in hypothetical
Strongest matches
abstract, academic, analytical, imaginative, intellectual, logical, metaphysical, philosophical, speculative, vague
Weak matches
as a premise, assumed, codified, conjectural, contingent, formalistic, formularized, general, ideal, idealized, ideational, ideological, impractical, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, notional, on paper, pedantic, postulated, presumed, problematical, pure, quixotic, suppositional, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unproved, unsubstantiated
Example Sentences
By the time the research concludes in 2028, the team aims to develop a deeper theoretical understanding of how these unusual planets formed, and whether the same forces could have shaped our own solar system.
That’s the implication of a theory developed several decades ago that was published in a 2002 letter to the scientific journal Nature — hardly where you’d expect to read about a theoretical breakthrough about market crashes.
Based on this insight, they developed the theoretical framework of "optical thermodynamics," describing how light in nonlinear lattices can undergo processes analogous to expansion, compression, and even phase transitions.
That same year, Adam Smith published “The Wealth of Nations,” providing theoretical underpinning for the American experiment in free markets.
Advancing the theoretical models of memory will be instrumental to gaining new insights into the human mind and recreating humanlike memory in AI agents.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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