This meeting is a waste of time. Everybody is just talking in vague theoretical terms.
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Theoretical
//ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl//
Synonyms for "theoretical" (48 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (24)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
2 entriesderived
35 entriesShowing 16 of 35 words.
derived from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
48 translations across 41 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَظَرِيّ adj (of or relating to theory)
Armenian
1 entries- տեսական adj (of or relating to theory)
Asturian
1 entries- teóricu adj (of or relating to theory)
Belarusian
2 entries- акадэмі́чны adj (of or relating to theory)
- тэарэты́чны adj (of or relating to theory)
Catalan
1 entries- teòric adj (of or relating to theory)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 理論 /理论 adj (of or relating to theory)
Czech
1 entries- teoretický adj (of or relating to theory)
Danish
1 entries- teoretisk adj (of or relating to theory)
Dutch
1 entries- theoretisch adj (of or relating to theory)
Esperanto
1 entries- teoria adj (of or relating to theory)
Estonian
1 entries- teoreetiline adj (of or relating to theory)
Faroese
1 entries- ástøðiligur adj (of or relating to theory)
Finnish
1 entries- teoreettinen adj (of or relating to theory)
French
1 entries- théorique adj (of or relating to theory)
Galician
1 entries- teórico adj (of or relating to theory)
German
1 entries- theoretisch adj (of or relating to theory)
Greek
1 entries- θεωρητικός adj (of or relating to theory)
Hindi
3 entries- इल्मी adj (of or relating to theory)
- सैद्धांतिक adj (of or relating to theory)
- सैद्धान्तिक adj (of or relating to theory)
Hungarian
1 entries- elméleti adj (of or relating to theory)
Ido
1 entries- teoriala adj (of or relating to theory)
Indonesian
1 entries- teoretis adj (of or relating to theory)
Irish
1 entries- teoiriciúil adj (of or relating to theory)
Italian
1 entries- teorico adj (of or relating to theory)
Japanese
1 entries- 理論的な adj (of or relating to theory)
Latin
1 entries- doctrīnālis adj (of or relating to theory)
Latvian
1 entries- teorētisks adj (of or relating to theory)
Macedonian
1 entries- теоре́тски adj (of or relating to theory)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- teoretisk adj (of or relating to theory)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- teoretisk adj (of or relating to theory)
Persian
1 entries- تئوریک adj (of or relating to theory)
Polish
1 entries- teoretyczny adj (of or relating to theory)
Portuguese
1 entries- teórico adj (of or relating to theory)
Romanian
2 entries- teoretic adj (of or relating to theory)
- teoric adj (of or relating to theory)
Russian
2 entries- академи́чный adj (of or relating to theory)
- теорети́ческий adj (of or relating to theory)
Slovene
1 entries- teorétičen adj (of or relating to theory)
Spanish
1 entries- teórico adj (of or relating to theory)
Swedish
1 entries- teoretisk adj (of or relating to theory)
Turkish
2 entries- kuramsal adj (of or relating to theory)
- teorik adj (of or relating to theory)
Ukrainian
1 entries- теорети́чний adj (of or relating to theory)
Urdu
1 entries- علمی adj (of or relating to theory)
Volapük
2 entries- teorik adj (of or relating to theory)
- teorodik adj (of or relating to theory)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
That shows his theoretical background.
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The Greeks made theoretical models of geometry.
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Theoretical physics was child's play to Einstein, but he couldn't figure out his income tax.
Source: tatoeba (71916)
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