Meaning of CONJECTURAL
| Pronunciation: | | kun'jekchurul
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| | Definition: | | [adj] 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"; "supposititious hypotheses" |
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| | Synonyms: | | supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, theoretic, theoretical |
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| | Definition: | | \Con*jec"tur*al\, a. [L. conjecturalis: cf. F.
conjectural.]
Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at;
undetermined; doubtful.
And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. --Shak.
A slight expense of conjectural analogy. --Hugh Miller.
Who or what such editor may be, must remain
conjectural. --Carlyle.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, theoretical |
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