English主要词典
theoretical
Universal Words
adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 concerned with the ideas and principles on which a particular subject is based, rather than with practice and experiment:
a theoretical analysis / approach / debate / model * theoretical physics * The first year provides students with a sound theoretical basis for later study.
OPPEXPERIMENTAL, PRACTICAL
2 that could possibly exist, happen or be true, although this is unlikely:
It's a theoretical possibility.
theoretically adverb:
theoretically sound conclusions * It is theoretically possible for him to overrule their decision, but highly unlikely.