hypothetically
/hˌaɪpəθˈɛtɪkli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a hypothetical way; as a hypothesis.
adv
Used to introduce a proposition to discussion without commitment to its truth.
Example Sentences
- "He offered the proposition hypothetically."
- "Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed Sunday that the President hypothetically could have shot the former FBI director to end the Russia investigation and not face prosecution for it while in office."
- "Hypothetically, what would you say if I proposed marriage to you?"
- "Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages."
Etymology
Etymology tree English hypothetical Middle English -ly English -ly English hypothetically From hypothetical + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more hypothetically (comparative)
most hypothetically (superlative)