Adjective: theoretic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more theoretic |
| Superlative | most theoretic |
Sample Sentences
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We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings. [1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43:]
Adjectives inflected like theoretic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
English theory + -etic, from Latin theōrēticus, from Ancient Greek θεωρητικός (theōrētikós). See: Latin Adjectives '
theōrēticus'.