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21speculative — a. 1. Contemplative, unpractical, Platonic, philosophical, speculatory. 2. Theoretical, ideal, imaginary …
22academic — adj 1. educational, educatory, instructional, pedagogical, academical; collegiate, college, university, scholastic, school; formal, institutional. 2.All U.S. humanistic, classical, philosophical, scientific, cultural; humanities, liberal arts,… …
23conjectural — adj 1. speculative, speculatory; suppositional, suppositive, presumptive; hypothetical, supposititious, theoretical, academic; referential, allusive. 2. guessed, surmised, suspected, imagined; assumed, reputed, supposed, putative; doubtful,… …
24hypothetical — adj 1. supposed, assumed, presumed, reputed, putative, inferred; guessed, conjectured, surmised, suspected, imagined; debatable, questionable, doubtful, problematic, uncertain, undetermined. 2. conjectural, speculative, speculatory, postulatory;… …
25theoretical — adj theoretic, pure, unapplied, abstract, impractical, unrealistic; ideal, ideational, ideological, academic, doctrinaire; hypothetical, conjectural, notional, speculatory, moot, postulatory, assumed, suppositive, supposititious, suppositional,… …
26speculatorial — speculaˈtorial, a. rare 0. = speculatory a. Worcester (citing Blount and Bailey). Hence in later Dicts …
