| ADJECTIVE | all | theoretical, theoretic | concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations |
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| all | theoretical | concerned with theories rather than their practical applications |
| Sounds | thiy.ereh'tihkahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations. | |
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| Example | "theoretical science" | |
| Synonym | theoretic | |
| 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 | |
| Adverbs | theoretically | in theory |
| theoretically | in a theoretical manner | |
| Meaning | concerned with theories rather than their practical applications. | |
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| Example | "theoretical physics" | |
| Narrower | abstract | Dealing with a subject / subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention |
| academic | hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | |
| pure | concerned with theory and data rather than practice | |
| Opposite | applied | concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles |
| Spanish | teórico | |
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