hypothetic

Questions about hypothetic

What does hypothetic mean?

hypothetic means "based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence".

How many syllables are in hypothetic?

hypothetic has 4 syllables: hy-po-the-tic. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for hypothetic?

Close synonyms include conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hypothetic a common word?

hypothetic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.