based on situations or ideas which are possible and imagined rather than real and true:
a hypothetical question / situation / example * Let us take the hypothetical case of Sheila, a mother of two... * I wasn't asking about anybody in particular-it was a purely hypothetical question.
hypothetically adverb
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is hypothetical a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hypothetical is tagged as adjective.
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