| ADJECTIVE | all | theoretic, theoretical | concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations |
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| Meaning | concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations. | |
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| Example | "theoretical science" | |
| Synonym | theoretical | |
| Narrower | a priori | Based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment |
| abstractive | Of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting / abstracting | |
| conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious | Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | |
| metaphysical | Highly abstract and overly theoretical | |
| notional, speculative | not based on fact or investigation | |
| theory-based | Based in theory rather than experiment | |
| Opposite | empirical, empiric | derived from experiment and observation rather than theory |
| Spanish | teórico | |
| Catalan | teòric | |
| Nouns | theory | a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world |
| theory | a tentative insight into the natural world | |
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