Dictionary Definition
supposititious adj : based primarily on surmise
rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of
dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for
his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages";
"supposititious hypotheses" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, supposed, suppositional, suppositious]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- spurious; substituted for the genuine
- supposed or hypothetical
Translations
supposed or hypothetical
- Dutch: hypothetisch
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Barmecidal, Barmecide, accounted as,
affected, airy, alleged, apocryphal, apparent, apparitional, artificial, assumed, assumptive, autistic, baseborn, bastard, bogus, brummagem, chimeric, chimerical, colorable, colored, conjectural, conjectured, counterfeit, counterfeited, deceptive, deemed, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, distorted, dreamlike, dreamy, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fatherless, feigned, fictional, fictitious, fictive, garbled, given, granted, hypothetical, illegitimate, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginational, imagined, imitation, inferred, junky, make-believe, man-made,
misbegotten,
misleading, mock, natural, nonexistent, notional, ostensible, perverted, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phony, pinchbeck, postulated, postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, pretended, pseudo, put-on, putative, quasi, queer, reputed, seeming, self-deceptive,
self-deluding, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called,
soi-disant, specious,
spectral, spurious, supposed, suppositional, suppositive, suppository, synthetic, taken for granted,
tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unactual, unauthentic, understood, unfounded, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, unsubstantial, visional, visionary, warped