Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conjectural"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Conjectural \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

conjectural
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" [syn: {supposed},
{suppositional}, {suppositious}, {supposititious}]


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