Given
Given noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.
Usage example: it's a given that television viewers are influenced by advertising, even consciously or subconsciously
Hypothetical and given are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hypothetical" instead the word "Given" as an adjective or a noun.
Nearby Word: give
Hypothetical
Hypothetical noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.
Usage example: believes that predictions of the extinction of certain species as the result of global warming are based upon too many hypotheticals
Given and hypothetical are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Given" instead the word "Hypothetical" as an adjective or a noun.
Nearby Words: hypothesis, hypothetic
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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He comes by it honestly enough, given his mother's reaction to his "hypothetical" kidnapping and Goku's death.
Source: Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon -
Which makes sense, given what starts this conversation is discussing a case where a man's wife was having an affair with a woman and Tony stating he wouldn't mind if his (hypothetical) wife did it.
Source: Girl-on-Girl Is Hot - Given that no technologies existed to send living humans away, the gesture was made of sending automated colonizers to populate other hypothetical worlds.
Source: Apocalypse How / Class X-2
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Hypothetical and Given. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/given/hypothetical
Given & Hypothetical. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/given/hypothetical>.
Hypothetical or Given. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/given/hypothetical.
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