ADJECTIVE
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based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
hypothetical situation
the supposed reason for his absence
theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
How To Use supposititious In A Sentence
- When the memoirs of Miss Pamela Andrews appeared, the future biographer of her doubly supposititious brother was a not very young man of thirty-three, who had written a good many not very good plays, had contributed to periodicals, and had done a little work at the Bar, besides living, at least till his marriage and it may be feared later, an exceedingly "rackety" life. The English Novel
- I talked it over as a supposititious case with Howe the other day, and he said that if Blair would agree, possibly -- mind you, only _possibly_; -- a divorce could be arranged. The Iron Woman
