noun
- A hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc..
- usage: "consider the following, just as a hypothetical"
adjective
- Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.
- usage: "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"
- synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious
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