be hypothetical

Frequency: 8.015.5 per million words

Used to state that something is based on a possible or imagined situation rather than a real one.

hypotheticalVERBS + hypothetical

Categories:

be

Examples (10)

  • For now, the discussion is purely hypothetical.
  • The question of what to do with a million dollars is hypothetical, but fun to imagine.
  • In the training exercise, the scenario presented to the team was entirely hypothetical.
  • Any talk of profit at this early stage will be hypothetical until we secure funding.
  • Without the data, our conclusions would be merely hypothetical.
  • The lawyer stressed that the case study he provided was hypothetical.
  • All these proposed solutions are hypothetical until they are tested in the real world.
  • His fears were not hypothetical; they were based on credible threats.
  • While the threat he described is hypothetical, we must still prepare for it.
  • The entire thought experiment is hypothetical, designed to explore ethical boundaries.