theoretical
1. Concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; SYN. theoretic.
2. Concerned with theories rather than their practical applications
a priori · abstract · abstractive · academic · conjectural · divinatory · hypothetic · hypothetical · metaphysical · notional · pure · speculative · supposed · suppositional · suppositious · supposititious · theoretic · theory-based
theorboed · theorem · theorem proving · theorems · theoretic · theoretical · theoretically · theoretical rim · theoretician · theoreticians