SUPPOSITITIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supposititious mean? 

• SUPPOSITITIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective SUPPOSITITIOUS has 1 sense:

1. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

  Familiarity information: SUPPOSITITIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPOSITITIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

Synonyms:

conjectural; divinatory; hypothetic; hypothetical; supposed; suppositional; suppositious; supposititious

Context example:

hypothetical situation

Similar:

theoretic; theoretical (concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations)

Derivation:

supposition (a hypothesis that is taken for granted)

supposition (a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence)

 Context examples 

Catherine had read too much not to be perfectly aware of the ease with which a waxen figure might be introduced, and a supposititious funeral carried on.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I sat looking at Peggotty for some time, in a reverie on this supposititious case: whether, if she were employed to lose me like the boy in the fairy tale, I should be able to track my way home again by the buttons she would shed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)