nontheoretical
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnθiəˈrɛtɪkəl/
:
no teórico
- The workshop was designed to provide nontheoretical solutions to common problems faced by small businesses.
Examples
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The new training program focuses on nontheoretical approaches that directly apply to real-world scenarios.
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Although nontheoretical and theoretically enlightening, this literary work also offers ways to reconceptualize what constitutes a family and the different boundaries some groups use to define family.
Academic text (1991) -
"Equations presented in the main text reduce citations from nontheoretical articles, whereas equations presented in an appendix do not.
Blog text (33) -
Caesar argues that the "deliberately nontheoretical" character of Tocqueville's political science deserves special attention (150).
Academic text (2000) -
Their insistence was based on a once-rejected principle, associated with Sir Francis Bacon, that emphasized the factual, nontheoretical nature of science.
Academic text (1991) -
Many educators prefer nontheoretical methods because they help students understand practical applications of concepts.
Synonyms
507
2.6
About how something works in real life rather than in ideas
10
6.5
Based on what people do, not on ideas
1
9.6
Based on what people see or measure, not on theory
Antonyms
How Theoretical
Surface Forms
Morphology
nontheoretical = theoretical (transparent) = non + theory + ical
Standard productive prefixation of 'non-' to the adjective 'theoretical', yielding 'not theoretical'.
Etymology
Nontheoretical comes from non- meaning 'not' and theory meaning 'ideas or explanations'. So nontheoretical means 'not based on theory' but on real experience or practical work.