1.
[syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Supposititious \Sup*pos`i*ti"tious\, a. [L. suppositicus. See
Supposition.]
1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being
what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious;
counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious
writing. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
2. Suppositional; hypothetical. [R.] --Woodward.
[1913 Webster] -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly, adv. --
Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
supposititious
adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
"theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still
highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his
absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead
languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural,
divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed,
suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "supposititious":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, accounted as, affected, airy, alleged,
apocryphal, apparent, apparitional, artificial, assumed,
assumptive, autistic, baseborn, bastard, bogus, brummagem,
chimeric, chimerical, colorable, colored, conjectural, conjectured,
counterfeit, counterfeited, deceptive, deemed, delusional,
delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, distorted, dreamlike,
dreamy, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, erroneous,
ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified,
fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fatherless, feigned, fictional,
fictitious, fictive, garbled, given, granted, hypothetical,
illegitimate, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory,
imaginary, imaginational, imagined, imitation, inferred, junky,
make-believe, man-made, misbegotten, misleading, mock, natural,
nonexistent, notional, ostensible, perverted, phantasmagoric,
phantasmal, phantom, phony, pinchbeck, postulated, postulational,
premised, presumed, presumptive, pretended, pseudo, put-on,
putative, quasi, queer, reputed, seeming, self-deceptive,
self-deluding, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called,
soi-disant, specious, spectral, spurious, supposed, suppositional,
suppositive, suppository, synthetic, taken for granted, tin,
tinsel, titivated, twisted, unactual, unauthentic, understood,
unfounded, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, unsubstantial, visional,
visionary, warped