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Definition of Theorize
1. Verb. To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds. "They theorize that there was a traffic accident "; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
Specialized synonyms: Construct, Reconstruct, Retrace, Develop, Explicate, Formulate
Generic synonyms: Anticipate, Expect
Derivative terms: Conjecture, Conjecture, Hypothesis, Hypothesis, Hypothesis, Hypothesis, Hypothesis, Speculation, Speculative, Speculator, Supposal, Supposition, Theorisation, Theoriser, Theory, Theory, Theorizer, Theory, Theory
2. Verb. Construct a theory about. "Galileo theorized the motion of the stars"
3. Verb. Form or construct theories. "He thinks and theorizes all day"
Definition of Theorize
1. v. i. To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
Definition of Theorize
1. Verb. to formulate theories, especially about some specific subject ¹
2. Verb. to speculate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Theorize
1. to form theories [v -RIZED, -RIZING, -RIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theorize
Literary usage of Theorize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; Or, The Branded Hand by Frances Harriet Green (1858)
"... theorize! —Hypothesis of Origin—Robert enters—Levity and Gravity. BROTHER HASSAN :
I have received with great joy your package and the letters of ..."
2. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1844)
"It just occurs to us to add that we are the less willing to theorize respecting Mr.
Stafford's practice, as the condition of the muscles on the concave side ..."
3. An Essay on the Cultivation of the Intellect by the Study of Dead Languages by William Sewell (1830)
"theorize when we are totally in the dark as to facts; and equally unwise to frame
a fanciful hypothesis as explanatory of a difficulty, which meets us at ..."
4. The Works of Aristotleby Aristotle by Aristotle (1908)
"And similarly men have the art of building that they may build, and theoretical
science that they may theorize ; but they do not theorize that they may have ..."
5. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by James Shergold Boone, John Henry Newman (1795)
"Now to think is not to theorize, and a man may think very ... For to theorize is
to connect a multitude of thoughts together, by fome relations real or ..."
6. The Works of Aristotleby Aristoteles by Aristoteles (1908)
"And similarly men have the art of building that they may build, and theoretical
science that they may theorize ; but they do not theorize that they may have ..."
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