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hypothetically

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hy·po·thet·i·cal  (hp-tht-kl) also hy·po·thet·ic (-thtk)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or based on a hypothesis: a hypothetical situation. See Synonyms at theoretical.
2.
a. Suppositional; uncertain. See Synonyms at supposed.
b. Conditional; contingent.
n.
A hypothetical circumstance, condition, scenario, or situation: OK, let's consider this possibility thenjust as a hypothetical.

[From Greek hupothetikos, from hupothetos, placed under, supposed, from hupotithenai, to suppose; see hypothesis.]

hypo·theti·cal n.
hypo·theti·cal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.hypothetically - by hypothesis
Translations
hypothetically [ˌhaɪpəʊˈθetɪkəlɪ] ADVhipotéticamente
hypothetically [ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəli] adv (= theoretically) → en théorie
hypothetically
adv
(= as a hypothesis)hypothetisch, als Hypothese
(= in theory)theoretisch
hypothetically [ˌhaɪpəʊˈθɛtɪklɪ] advipoteticamente, per ipotesi
hypothetically [ˌhaɪpəʊˈθɛtɪklɪ] advipoteticamente, per ipotesi


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Grose looked straight out of the window, but I felt that, hypothetically, I had a right to know what young persons engaged for Bly were expected to do.
Given any appearance of an object, we can construct hypothetically a certain system of appearances to which the appearance in question would belong if the laws of perspective alone were concerned.
He really believed in the spiritual advantages, and meant that his life henceforth should be the more devoted because of those later sins which he represented to himself as hypothetic, praying hypothetically for their pardon:--"if I have herein transgressed.
 
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