Theories Synonyms and Antonyms

Something taken to be true without proof
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. premises
  2. theses
  3. postulates
  4. suppositions
  5. postulations
  6. assumptions
Hypothesis, belief
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hypotheses
  2. philosophies
  3. cosmologies
  4. dogmata
  5. approaches
  6. schemes
  7. codes
  8. provisions
  9. plans
  10. bases
  11. datum
  12. rationales
  13. doctrines
  14. outlooks
  15. methods
  16. foundations
  17. pleas
  18. arguments
  19. systems
Antonyms:
  1. realities
  2. proofs
  3. certainties
A tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conjectures
  2. hypotheses
  3. beliefs
  4. theses
  5. possibilities
  6. surmises
  7. philosophies
  8. ideologies
  9. speculations
  10. hunches
  11. opinions
  12. formulae
  13. analyses
  14. assumptions
  15. principles
  16. nations
  17. ideas
  18. explanations
  19. doctrines

Theories Sentence Examples

  • There are two theories that may be put forward.

  • Several theories have been propounded by ethnologists.

  • Even at this stage the vindictive or retributive character of punishment remains, but gradually, and specially after the humanist movement under thinkers like Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham, new theories begin to emerge.

  • The innumerable theories which were framed as to the precise nature of the offering and as to the precise change in the elements all implied that conception of it.

  • Fortunately the Cartesian method had already done its service, even where the theories were rejected.

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