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Definition of Theoretic
1. Adjective. Concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations. "Theoretical science"
Similar to: Abstractive, A Priori, Conjectural, Divinatory, Hypothetic, Hypothetical, Supposed, Suppositional, Suppositious, Supposititious, Notional, Speculative, Metaphysical, Theory-based
Derivative terms: Theory, Theory
Antonyms: Empirical
Definition of Theoretic
1. a. Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.
Definition of Theoretic
1. Adjective. Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters. ¹
2. Adjective. Existing only in theory, not proven in reality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Theoretic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theoretic
Literary usage of Theoretic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections and Essays by John Ruskin (1918)
"I PROCEED, therefore, first to examine the nature of what I have called the
theoretic faculty, and to justify my substitution of the term "theoretic" for ..."
2. A Treatise on Hydraulics by Mansfield Merriman (1889)
"theoretic AND EFFECTIVE POWER. The theoretic energy of impounds of water falling
through h feet is Wh foot-pounds, and if this occurs in one second the ..."
3. A Short History of Philosophy by Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander (1908)
"As determined or limited, the ego is theoretic; as determining it is practical.
Hence we have the two parts of the Science of Knowledge —the theoretic and ..."
4. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"And now we find what noble sympathy and unity there is between the imaginative
and theoretic faculties. Both agree in this, that they reject nothing, ..."
5. The Christian View of God and the World as Centring in the Incarnation by James Orr (1893)
"... A theoretic Finally, it is not sufficiently recognised by Ritschl and his ...
carries in it also the impulse to raise its knowledge to theoretic form. ..."
6. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group by William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki (1918)
"theoretic ANp AESTHETIC INTERESTS In Volume IV we shall have the opportunity of
studying the peasant's theoretic and aesthetic interests in their full ..."
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