adjective
- relating to or having the nature of a thesis or proposition; assertive rather than proven
Usage: formal; academic
Examples
- The professor’s thetical statements required further evidence to be convincing.
- Her argument remained thetical until she could provide supporting data.
- The debate centered on thetical claims rather than established facts.
- His thetical approach to the problem left many questions unanswered.
- The research proposal contained several thetical assumptions that needed testing.