Conjectural

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conjectural \Con*jec"tur*al\, a. [L. conjecturalis: cf. F.
     conjectural.]
     Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at;
     undetermined; doubtful.
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           And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. --Shak.
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           A slight expense of conjectural analogy. --Hugh Miller.
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           Who or what such editor may be, must remain
           conjectural.                             --Carlyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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: {divinatory},
              {supposed}, {suppositional}, {suppositious}, {supposititious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, theoretical