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See definition of theorizing on Dictionary.com
  • as inconjecture
  • as inguessing

synonyms for theorizing

  • guesswork
  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • inference
  • supposition
  • conclusion
  • fancy
  • guess
  • guesstimate
  • notion
  • opinion
  • presumption
  • surmise
  • theory
  • perhaps
  • shot in the dark
  • sneaking suspicion
  • stab in the dark
  • guesswork
  • hunch
  • assuming
  • assumption
  • deduction
  • fancy
  • imagination
  • inference
  • opinion
  • postulating
  • predisposition
  • presuming
  • presumption
  • reckoning
  • speculation
  • supposition
  • surmise

antonyms for theorizing

MOST RELEVANT
  • proof
  • reality
  • truth
  • calculation
  • certainty
  • fact
  • measurement
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How to use theorizing in a sentence

Meanwhile the seventeenth-century philosophers had been theorizing.
AVIATION IN PEACE AND WARSIR FREDERICK HUGH SYKES
We must stop limiting our talks to theorizing in clubs and societies.
THE EUGENIC MARRIAGE, VOL. 3 (OF 4)W. GRANT HAGUE
Against such demonstration as this any mere theological theorizing is of no avail.
THE FIEND'S DELIGHTDOD GRILE
His intense theorizing tendency was contagious, and it was only the stimulus of a theory which could then have induced me to work.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. II (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOT
A busy man has to take his choice between helping his fellow-men and theorizing about them.
TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTSEDITH WHARTON
I wish here to point how that mode of practice which is called theorizing emancipates experience—how it makes for steady progress.
ESSAYS IN EXPERIMENTAL LOGICJOHN DEWEY
Facts were in his case far easier of digestion than any amount of theorizing, and here his nephew was providing him with facts.
THE GREAT AIRSHIP.F. S. BRERETON
Was he merely theorizing, or did he know more than he had told me?
THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN ROOMMARION HARVEY
His experiments were beautifully exact; his theorizing from them was, in this instance, altogether fallacious.
A HISTORY OF SCIENCE, VOLUME 2(OF 5)HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS
This is the acceptance of theorizing as an essential part of investigation in geography, just as in other sciences.
THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, JUNE, 1900VARIOUS
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO THEORIZING

  • conclusion
  • fancy
  • guess
  • guesstimate
  • guesswork
  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • inference
  • notion
  • opinion
  • perhaps
  • presumption
  • shot in the dark
  • sneaking suspicion
  • stab in the dark
  • supposition
  • surmise
  • theorizing
  • theory
  • assuming
  • assumption
  • deduction
  • fancy
  • guesswork
  • hunch
  • imagination
  • inference
  • opinion
  • postulating
  • predisposition
  • presuming
  • presumption
  • reckoning
  • speculation
  • supposition
  • surmise
  • theorizing
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.