hypothetical

In a sentence

Six example sentences with hypothetical, each labelled with its topic.

• The lecturer opened with a hypothetical island where nobody could lie, then spent an hour showing why promises would still matter.

  Philosophy

• Counsel objected that the question was hypothetical, since the witness had never driven that road at night.

  Law

• The model assumes a hypothetical market where every buyer knows every price, which no actual high street has ever managed.

  Economics

• The stress test asks how the bank would survive a hypothetical crash in which house prices fall by a third.

  Finance

• The founders modeled a hypothetical customer who buys every month, which nobody in their first cohort actually did.

  Startups

• Asked a hypothetical question about finding a wallet, most people say they would return it, which the field study did not confirm.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains hypothetical. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• inhibited
• accompaniment
• confines
• lecturing
• subordinate
• credible
• profound
• focussed
• diminish
• labored
• erode
• panelled