FromAncient Greekὑποθετικός(hupothetikós).
hypothetical (comparativemorehypothetical,superlativemosthypothetical)
- Based upon ahypothesis;conjectural
1882, Henry John Roby, chapter XVIII, inA Latin grammar for schools[1], London: MacMillan and Co., Book IV :Syntax or use of Inflexional Forms, page258:Such a subjunctive as appears in the principal clause (i.e. theapodosis) of a conditional sentence may be called ahypothetical subjunctive.Anhypothetical subjunctive expresses an action1 which, while its non-occurrence is implied, is yet supposed to occur, if some other action occur.
2006,ACLU v. NSA (District Court opinion):To establish standing under Article III, a plaintiff must satisfy the following three requirements: (1) "the plaintiff must have suffered an injury in fact - an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized, and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural orhypothetical"; ...
- (philosophy)conditional;contingent upon some hypothesis/antecedent
based upon a hypothesis
- Arabic:اِفْتِرَاضِيّ(iftirāḍiyy)
- Belarusian:гіпатэты́чны(hipatetýčny)
- Bulgarian:хипотети́чен (bg)(hipotetíčen)
- Catalan:hipotètic (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:假設的 /假设的 (zh)(jiǎshè de),假定的 (zh)(jiǎdìng de)
- Czech:hypotetický (cs)
- Danish:hypotetisk
- Finnish:hypoteettinen (fi)
- French:hypothétique (fr)
- Galician:hipotético (gl) m
- Georgian:ჰიპოთეტიური(hiṗoteṭiuri)
- German:hypothetisch (de)
- Greek:υποθετικός (el)(ypothetikós)
- Hindi:काल्पनिक (hi)(kālpanik)
- Icelandic:reistur á tilgátu m,reist á tilgátu f orn;skilyrtur m,skilyrt f orn
- Italian:ipotetico (it)
- Japanese:仮定の (ja)(かていの, katei no)
- Kazakh:гипотезалық(gipotezalyq),болжаулық(boljaulyq)
- Korean:가설적(gaseoljeok)
- Malay:andaian (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:hypotetisk,tenkt (no)
- Nynorsk:hypotetisk,tenkt
- Persian:فرضی (fa)(farzi)
- Polish:hipotetyczny (pl)
- Portuguese:hipotético (pt)
- Romanian:ipotetic (ro) m orn
- Russian:гипотети́ческий (ru)(gipotɛtíčeskij)
- Slovak:hypotetický
- Spanish:hipotético (es)
- Swedish:hypotetisk (sv)
- Tagalog:palagayin
- Turkish:kuramsal (tr),nazari (tr),varsayımlı (tr),varsayımsal (tr),farazi (tr)
- Ukrainian:гіпотети́чний(hipotetýčnyj)
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hypothetical (pluralhypotheticals)
- A possible orhypothetical situation or proposition
Thesehypotheticals serve no purpose until we have more information.
2022 October 2, Edward Helmore, quoting David Petraeus, “Petraeus: US would destroy Russia’s troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine”, inThe Guardian[2]:He told ABC News: “Just to give you ahypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black sea.”
