Meaning & use
theoretic
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Based on or concerned with theory rather than practical application; theoretical.
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The professor's theoretic model predicted the outcome, though it had not yet been tested.
His argument remained purely theoretic until it was proven in the lab.
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An older, slightly more formal variant of "theoretical," now less common in everyday writing but still found in academic and philosophical prose.
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