Meaning of theoretical in English
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Classifying Adjective
theoreticalDefinitions
1. based on specialized theoryExamples
- « a theoretical analysis »
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Qualitative Adjective
theoreticalDefinitions
1. concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerationsExamples
- « theoretical science »
Synonyms
- abstractive
- a priori
- conjectural
- divinatory
- supposed
- suppositional
- suppositious
- supposititious
- hypothetical
- hypothetic
- notional
- speculative
- metaphysical
- theory-based
Antonyms
- 2. concerned with theories rather than their practical applications
Examples
- « theoretical physics »
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Famous quotes
- « A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. » Trofim Lysenko
- « As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. » Murray Gell-Mann
- « The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. » Bertrand Russell
- « The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. » Talcott Parsons
- « If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. » Karl Jaspers