Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to conjecturing or to depending on mere conjecture: as, a conjectural critic.
- Depending on conjecture; springing from or implying a guess or conjecture; problematical: as, a conjectural opinion; a conjectural emendation of a text.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.
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- adjective In the nature of a
conjecture , or based on a conjecture. - noun Something that is conjectural; a
conjecture .
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- adjective based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
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Examples
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The only physical cause for the practice which suggests itself to me and that must be owned to be purely conjectural, is that within the Sotadic Zone there is a blending of the masculine and feminine temperaments, a crasis which elsewhere occurs only sporadically.
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Already we can see how such advances have brought about a watershed in conjectural modeling in humanistic fields such as art conservation.
Introduction 2003
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When there is a dispute as to the fact, since the cause is confirmed by conjectures, it is called a conjectural statement.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I tried the theme again before I abandoned it, and was so fortunate as to get him to admit a degree of improvement such as led to his desiring to recall his conjectural judgment on my possibilities as a sonnet-writer, but as the letters in which he characterises the advance are neither so terse in criticism, nor so interesting from the exposition of principles, as the one quoted, I pass them by.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892
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Phillipson devotes a "conjectural" chapter to reconstructing lectures on jurisprudence that Smith may or may not have delivered in Edinburgh in the winter of 1750-51.
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'conjectural' history, Ricardo did not mean to state a historical fact.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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Our ship's position in this waste of storm and sea is conjectural.
CHAPTER XXXV 2010
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How much farther it might have run is conjectural; for, after one big game, he never played again.
THE FAITH OF MEN 2010
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I slipped away from the port and went along the deck to the break of the poop, where I held on and stood staring through the gray and spray in the conjectural direction of our drift.
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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However, architect William Burges admitted that the towers' conical roofs were "utterly conjectural".
Victorian and Edwardian buildings: examples from the era 2011
travismcdermott commented on the word conjectural
1553 T. WILSON Rhet. 49b, The oration conjectural is when matters be examined and tryed out by suspicions gathered, and some likelihode of thinge appearinge.
May 15, 2008