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conspiracy-theoretic

UK/kənˌspɪɹəsi θɪəˈɹɛtɪk/

conspiracy-theoretic adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of a conspiracy theory.

Adjective

conspiracy-theoretic (comparative more conspiracy-theoretic, superlative most conspiracy-theoretic)

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of a conspiracy theory.
    • Moreover (contra conspiracy-theoretic paranoia), the financial or political knowledge of even those with the most questionable motives and the greatest power is finite.2000, Gary Brent Madison, Is There a Canadian Philosophy?, page 155
    • To fill in the details of the case, suppose that you have more or less all the same evidence most of us have about Obama, plus a small smattering of evidence from conspiracy-theoretic films about the matter.2014, Dennis Whitcomb, in Matheson & Vitz (Eds.), The Ethics of Belief, Oxford 2014, p. 96

Forms of conspiracy-theoretic

comparativemore conspiracy-theoretic
superlativemost conspiracy-theoretic

Origin of conspiracy-theoretic

From conspiracy + theoretic, after conspiracy theory. Compare conspiracy-theoretical.

Words that rhyme with conspiracy-theoretic

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Questions about conspiracy-theoretic

What does conspiracy-theoretic mean?
Conspiracy-theoretic means pertaining to or characteristic of a conspiracy theory.
What part of speech is conspiracy-theoretic?
Conspiracy-theoretic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce conspiracy-theoretic?
Conspiracy-theoretic is pronounced /kənˌspɪɹəsi θɪəˈɹɛtɪk/ (UK).

Words near conspiracy-theoretic in the dictionary

  1. conspiracy theorize
  2. conspiracy theorized
  3. conspiracy theorizes
  4. conspiracy theorizing
  5. conspiracy theory
  6. conspiracy-theoretic
  7. conspiracy-theorize
  8. conspiracy-theorized
  9. conspiracy-theorizes
  10. conspiracy-theorizing
  11. conspiracying

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