EGAVE

hypothetically

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adverb In a hypothetical way; as a hypothesis.
    He offered the proposition hypothetically.
  2. adverb Used to introduce a proposition to discussion without commitment to its truth.
    Hypothetically, what would you say if I proposed marriage to you?

Similar words

conceivably potentially technically notionally ideally theoretically nominally conceptually hypothesis ex hypothesi

Often followed by

possible to speaking be and that in the necessary

Word family

hypotheses hypothesis hypothesise hypothesised hypothesises hypothesising hypothesize hypothesized hypothesizes hypothesizing

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