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 and divides as hy-po-the-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.