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- theoretical
collapse - concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; "theoretical science"
- concerned with theories rather than their practical applications; "theoretical physics" related words >
- abstract,
- academic,
- analytical,
- armchair,
- closet,
- conceptual,
- conjectural,
- debatable,
- fanciful,
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- unproved,
- unproven,
- unrealistic,
- untested
- academic,
- accounted as,
- alleged,
- assumed,
- assumptive,
- conjectural,
- conjectured,
- deemed,
- expected,
- given,
- granted,
- hinted,
- hypothetical,
- imagined,
- implicated,
- implied,
- indicated,
- inferred,
- intended,
- intimated,
- involved,
- meant,
- obliged,
- ostensible,
- postulated,
- postulational,
- postulatory,
- premised,
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- presumptive,
- presupposed,
- pretended,
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- reputed,
- required,
- so-called,
- speculative,
- suggested,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- suppository,
- taken for granted,
- tentative,
- theoretical,
- understood
- hypothetical
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- a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; "consider the following, just as a hypothetical" related words >
- a fortiori,
- a posteriori,
- a priori,
- abstract,
- academic,
- analytic,
- armchair,
- assumed,
- categorical,
- conditional,
- conjectural,
- conjectured,
- deductive,
- dialectic,
- discursive,
- doubtful,
- enthymematic,
- epagogic,
- guessed,
- hypothesized,
- hypothetic,
- ideal,
- imagined,
- impractical,
- inductive,
- inferential,
- maieutic,
- moot,
- notional,
- postulatory,
- presumed,
- problematic,
- putative,
- reputed,
- soritical,
- speculative,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- suppository,
- surmised,
- suspected,
- syllogistic,
- synthetic,
- theoretical,
- transcendent,
- transcendental
- conjectural
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- based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" related words >
- abstract,
- academic,
- arguable,
- armchair,
- at issue,
- confutable,
- contestable,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- debatable,
- deniable,
- disputable,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- hypothetic,
- hypothetical,
- ideal,
- iffy,
- impractical,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- mistakable,
- moot,
- notional,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- postulatory,
- problematic,
- putative,
- questionable,
- refutable,
- reputed,
- speculative,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- suppository,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- theoretical
- impractical
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- not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution" related words >
- abstract,
- academic,
- airy,
- armchair,
- autistic,
- awkward,
- beyond one,
- bulky,
- clumsy,
- conjectural,
- contrary,
- crosswise,
- cumbersome,
- dereistic,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- hypothetic,
- ideal,
- idealistic,
- impracticable,
- in the clouds,
- inconvenient,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- infeasible,
- inoperable,
- insuperable,
- insurmountable,
- moot,
- nonfunctional,
- nonrealistic,
- notional,
- otherworldly,
- perverse,
- poetic,
- ponderous,
- postulatory,
- quixotic,
- romancing,
- romantic,
- romanticized,
- speculative,
- starry,
- starry-eyed,
- storybook,
- theoretical,
- too much for,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- unachievable,
- unattainable,
- unavailing,
- uncompassable,
- undoable,
- uneffectible,
- unfeasible,
- unhandy,
- unmanageable,
- unnegotiable,
- unperformable,
- unpractical,
- unrealistic,
- unrealizable,
- unserviceable,
- unsurmountable,
- unusable,
- unwieldy,
- unworkable,
- useless,
- visionary,
- wild,
- wish-fulfilling
- academic
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- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
- associated with academia or an academy; "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns" related words >
- abstract,
- armchair,
- book-learned,
- bookish,
- booky,
- chimerical,
- classroom,
- closet,
- collegiate,
- conjectural,
- cross-disciplinary,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- erudite,
- extramural,
- graduate,
- graduate-professional,
- hypothetic,
- hypothetical,
- ideal,
- idealistic,
- imaginary,
- impractical,
- interdisciplinary,
- interscholastic,
- intramural,
- ivory-tower,
- learned,
- lettered,
- mandarin,
- moot,
- notional,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedagogical,
- pedantic,
- postgraduate,
- postulatory,
- preceptorial,
- preschool,
- professional,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- school,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- speculative,
- studious,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- theoretical,
- tutorial,
- university,
- unpractical,
- unrealistic,
- utopian,
- visionary
- notional
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- not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge" related words >
- Gothic,
- abstract,
- academic,
- arbitrary,
- armchair,
- baroque,
- bizarre,
- brain-born,
- capricious,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conjectural,
- cranky,
- creative,
- crotchety,
- dream-built,
- esemplastic,
- extravagant,
- fancied,
- fanciful,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasied,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- fictive,
- flaky,
- florid,
- freakish,
- germinal,
- grotesque,
- harebrained,
- humorsome,
- hypothetic,
- ideal,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- ideological,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imaginational,
- imaginative,
- imagined,
- impractical,
- ingenious,
- inspired,
- inventive,
- kinky,
- maggoty,
- moody,
- moot,
- motiveless,
- nonexistent,
- original,
- originative,
- outlandish,
- petulant,
- postulatory,
- pregnant,
- preposterous,
- productive,
- prolific,
- quirky,
- rococo,
- seminal,
- shadowy,
- shaping,
- speculative,
- supposititious,
- teeming,
- temperamental,
- theoretical,
- unactual,
- unreal,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- visional,
- visioned,
- wanton,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wild
- abstract,
- academic,
- adventurous,
- aleatory,
- analytical,
- arguable,
- armchair,
- at issue,
- chancy,
- closet,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- confutable,
- conjectural,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- contestable,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- curious,
- debatable,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- deniable,
- dicey,
- disputable,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- excogitating,
- full of risk,
- hazardous,
- hypothetic,
- hypothetical,
- ideal,
- idealistic,
- idealized,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- iffy,
- impractical,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- inquiring,
- intellectual,
- introspective,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- mental,
- mistakable,
- moot,
- museful,
- musing,
- noetic,
- notional,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- pensive,
- pondering,
- postulatory,
- prehensive,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- questioning,
- ratiocinative,
- rational,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- refutable,
- riskful,
- risky,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- serious,
- sober,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- theoretical,
- thinking,
- thought,
- thoughtful,
- uncertain,
- unpractical,
- unproved,
- unproven,
- unrealistic,
- unreliable,
- untested,
- untrustworthy,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- wildcat,
- wistful
- moot
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- a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot"
- of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) related words >
- abstract,
- academic,
- advance,
- agitate,
- arguable,
- argue,
- argufy,
- armchair,
- at issue,
- bandy words,
- bicker,
- bring before,
- bring forward,
- bring up,
- broach,
- canvass,
- cavil,
- choplogic,
- commend to attention,
- confutable,
- confuted,
- conjectural,
- contend,
- contest,
- contestable,
- contested,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- debatable,
- debate,
- deniable,
- disbelieved,
- discept,
- discredited,
- disputable,
- dispute,
- disputed,
- doubtable,
- doubted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- exploded,
- give and take,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- hypothetic,
- ideal,
- iffy,
- impractical,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- indefinite,
- introduce,
- join issue,
- launch,
- lay before,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- make a motion,
- mistakable,
- mistrusted,
- move,
- notional,
- offer a resolution,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- open up,
- pettifog,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- pose,
- posit,
- postulate,
- postulatory,
- prefer,
- problematic,
- problematical,
- proffer,
- propose,
- proposition,
- propound,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- put it to,
- questionable,
- questioned,
- quibble,
- recommend,
- refutable,
- set before,
- set forth,
- spar,
- speculative,
- start,
- submit,
- suggest,
- suppositional,
- suspect,
- suspected,
- suspicious,
- take sides,
- theoretical,
- thrash out,
- try conclusions,
- uncertain,
- undecided,
- under a cloud,
- under suspicion,
- undetermined,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- ventilate,
- wrangle
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