Synonyms of the word

theoretical

• adj. Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.

abstract

• n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
• n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
• n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
• n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
• n. (art) An abstract work of art.
• n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
• adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
• adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
• adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
• adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
• adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
• adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
• adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
• adj. Insufficiently factual.
• adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
• adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
• adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
• v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
• v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
• v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
• v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
• v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
• v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
• v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
• v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

abstractive

• adj. Having an abstracting nature or tendency; tending to separate; tending to be withdrawn.
• adj. Derived by abstraction; belonging to abstraction.

academic

• adj. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
• adj. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.
• adj. Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to practical or…
• adj. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
• adj. (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
• adj. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
• adj. Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
• adj. Study of humanities topics rather than science and engineering.
• n. (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
• n. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged…
• n. A member of the Academy; an academician.
• n. (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
• n. (plural only) Academic studies.

conjectural

• adj. In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
• n. Something that is conjectural; a conjecture.

divinatory

• adj. Pertaining to divination.

hypothetic

• adj. based on hypothesis or theory; hypothetical.
• adj. existing as an abstract concept rather than a concrete reality.

hypothetical

• adj. Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural.
• adj. (philosophy) conditional; contingent upon some hypothesis/antecedent.
• n. A hypothetical situation or proposition.

metaphysical

• adj. Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
• adj. Immaterial, supersensual, not physical (more properly, "beyond" that which is physical).

notional

• adj. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
• adj. Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
• adj. (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
• adj. (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount.

pure

• adj. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
• adj. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
• adj. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
• adj. (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
• adj. (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
• adj. (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
• adv. (Liverpudlian) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
• v. (golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
• n. Alternative form of puer.

speculative

• adj. Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
• adj. Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
• adj. Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.

supposed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of suppose.
• adj. Presumed to be true, but without proof.
• adj. (with infinitive) Generally considered or expected.
• adj. (with infinitive) Having an obligation.
• adj. (with infinitive) Intended.

suppositional

• adj. Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural.

suppositious

• adj. Based upon supposition.

supposititious

• adj. Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit.
• adj. (obsolete) Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist.
• adj. Supposed or hypothetical.

theoretic

• adj. Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters.
• adj. Existing only in theory, not proven in reality.