Question

hypothetical The candidate refused to say what she would do if faced with a hypothetical military crisis. ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl

Accepted Answer

(1) Involving an assumption made for the sake of argument or for further study or investigation. (2) Imagined for purposes of example. The noun hypothesis comes straight from the Greek word meaning “foundation” or “base”—that is something “put under” something else. So a hypothesis is something you assume to be true in order that you can use it as the base or basis for a line of reasoning—and any such assumption can be called hypothetical. So, for example, the theory that the dinosaurs became extinct because of a giant meteor that struck the earth near the Yucatán Peninsula involves the hypothesis that such a collision would have had such terrible effects on the earth's climate that the great reptiles would have been doomed. Once a hypothesis has been thoroughly studied and researched without being proved wrong, it generally comes to be called a theory instead

word	hypothetical
definition	(1) Involving an assumption made for the sake of argument or for further study or investigation. (2) Imagined for purposes of example.
eg_sentence	The candidate refused to say what she would do if faced with a hypothetical military crisis.
explanation	The noun hypothesis comes straight from the Greek word meaning “foundation” or “base”—that is something “put under” something else. So a hypothesis is something you assume to be true in order that you can use it as the base or basis for a line of reasoning—and any such assumption can be called hypothetical. So, for example, the theory that the dinosaurs became extinct because of a giant meteor that struck the earth near the Yucatán Peninsula involves the hypothesis that such a collision would have had such terrible effects on the earth's climate that the great reptiles would have been doomed. Once a hypothesis has been thoroughly studied and researched without being proved wrong, it generally comes to be called a theory instead
IPA	ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl

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