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conium |
conium maculatum |
conject |
conjector |
conjecturable |
conjectural
| conjecturalist
| conjecturally
| conjecture
| conjecturer
| conjoin
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conjectural
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective conjectural has 1 sense
- conjectural(s = adj.all) divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious - based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" Derived forms noun conjecture3, noun conjecture1, noun conjecture2
CIDE DICTIONARY
conjectural, a. [L. conjecturalis: cf. F. conjectural.].
Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful. [1913 Webster]
"And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me."
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"A slight expense of conjectural analogy."
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"Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
conjectural, adj. based on, involving, or given to conjecture.
Derivative
conjecturally adv.
Etymology
F f. L conjecturalis (as conjecture)
THESAURUS
conjectural
abstract, academic, arguable, armchair, at issue, confutable, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, iffy, impractical, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, mistakable, moot, notional, open to doubt, open to question, postulatory, problematic, putative, questionable, refutable, reputed, speculative, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, suspect, suspicious, theoreticalROGET THESAURUS
conjectural
Supposition
N supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory, thesis, theorem, data, proposition, position, proposal, presumption, divination, conjecture, guess, guesswork, speculation, rough guess, shot, shot in the dark, conjecturality, surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, estimate, approximation (nearness), inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression, bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion, association of ideas, (analogy), metonym, metonymy, simile (metaphor), conceit, idea, thought, original idea, invention (imagination), supposing, given, mooted, postulatory, assumed, supposititious, suppositive, suppositious, gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative, suppositional, suggestive, allusive, if, if so be, an, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, in the case, in the event of, quasi, as if, provided, perhaps, for aught one knows.
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