Adjective : a hypothetical case. ,hypothetical reasoning.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : The Secretary of Defense refused to discuss hypotheticals with the reporters.    From Dictionary.com. 

Hence their system was termed hypothetic universalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference

The hypothetic being that the majority were one way.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2004] Reference

Well I'm an energetic hypothetic version of another person.    From Wordnik.com.  [motivate-me1 Diary Entry] Reference

KING: This is a fair hypothetic, since it can be asked of any man.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Giuliani Says No Go to New York Senate Bid - May 19, 2000] Reference

HUDSON: Well, I really don ` t want to be talking about hypothetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2008] Reference

Fairly imminent marriage, and again, I'll go back to the hypothetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2002] Reference

As a hypothetic do you think it would be career affecting if you were?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2006] Reference

As a hypothetic, do you think it would be career - affecting if you were?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2006] Reference

This is a hypothetic, but hypothetics are fair and of course, they're good.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2004] Reference

The brown eyes blazed on him with the anger meant for his hypothetic slanderer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

So if they're not the father and you may be the father, let's take a hypothetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2007] Reference

KING: If -- this is hypothetic -- if he called you, said he'd like to see you.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2003] Reference

That is the only way the analogical/hypothetic inference will give the desired result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other Minds] Reference

Barry Richard, this a hypothetic, supposing the secretary of state certifies on Saturday.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Will Florida Courts Decide Election 2000? - November 16, 2000] Reference

Okay, so this hypothetic young professional is 20 years old and forgoes the Jeep Cherokee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meadowcreek Debate Gets Weird at cvillenews.com] Reference

How do you explain that, this hypothetic -- why would she lose nationally to Rudy Giuliani?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 3, 2007] Reference

In other words, it would be a U.N. person who would make this decision, the hypothetic if you were.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: A Look Back at Ronald Reagan in His Own Words - January 13, 2001] Reference

BigPicnic has come up with a bunch of elevator pitches for a hypothetic TV show -- they're pretty funny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: March 16, 2003 - March 22, 2003 Archives] Reference

And Carvin comes up with a hypothetic situation in which Twitter would be a useful asset in the case of a disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World is a-Twitter] Reference

If I gave you the hypothetic of great driver in an average car, an average driver in a great car, who would you go with?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2004] Reference

KING: Do you expect -- let's -- we're using Hillary as hypothetic -- Hillary to join that crowd, or be regarded as above it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: The Women of the Senate Discuss 'The Women of the Senate' - July 26, 2000] Reference

After this curious boast about his preferences as a hypothetic bondsman, Mr. Froude proceeds gravely to inform his readers that.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference

KING: Trent, if they polled the jury, this is hypothetic, and they're 11-1 for not guilty, would that tend the state to not retry?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2004] Reference

Justified and obscured with the creative exchange for 100 parking spaces in some hypothetic future building OHSU would be building.    From Wordnik.com.  [SoWhat goes underground (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference

These hypothetic conjectures increased my anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

But they tell me there's a place where my hypothetic race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

He left his hypothetic sentence unfinished, and relapsed into silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference

Either after us, or about to be, was the hypothetic form of my conjecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

The walk was long enough to give me time for many a hypothetic calculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference

The case is so strange as to appear hypothetic, but the authority seems reliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

In hypothetic general election polls conducted over the past month, Coons was trailing.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Although this too hypothetic conception is now forgotten, it is sufficient for our purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

African leaders launch "African Unity" as first step to hypothetic continent-wide federation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Page 10 hypothetic case, and call for their opinions, one by one, as to the conduct which would be proper in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry] Reference

These two main factors are consequently to be assumed in all hypothetic conceptions of previous mutative periods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Future and present really mix in such emergencies, and one can always escape lies in them by using hypothetic forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

The novelist imagines how he would feel in the shoes of his characters, and cries out with the pain of hypothetic bunions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

He was acting on hypothetic grounds, but this was the sort of action that had the keenest interest for his diplomatic mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romola] Reference

He had a horrible conviction that behind all this hypothetic statement there was a knowledge of some actual change in Mary's feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference