Conjecture

5 definitions found

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

  Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. i.
     To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form
     an opinion; to imagine.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\ (; 135?), n. [L. conjectura, fr.
     conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture;
     con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See {Jet} a
     shooting forth.]
     An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive
     evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
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           He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first
           loose conjecture by a real study of nature. --Whewell.
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           Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjectured}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Conjecturing}.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf.
     {Conject}.]
     To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to
     surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
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           Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what
           will be.                                 --South.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conjecture
       n 1: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or
            conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence);
            "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he
            dismissed it as mere conjecture" [syn: {speculation}]
       2: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
          [syn: {guess}, {supposition}, {surmise}, {surmisal}, {speculation},
           {hypothesis}]
       3: reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from
          incomplete evidence
       v : to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
           "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in
           swamps" [syn: {speculate}, {theorize}, {theorise}, {hypothesize},
            {hypothesise}, {hypothecate}, {suppose}]

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

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "conjecture":
     assume, assumption, axiom, believe, blind guess, bold conjecture,
     conceive, conclude, deem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel, gather,
     give a guess, glean, guess, guesswork, hazard a conjecture, hunch,
     hypothesis, imagine, infer, inference, judge, perhaps, postulate,
     postulation, postulatum, premise, presume, presumption,
     presupposal, presupposition, pretend, proposition, risk assuming,
     rough guess, set of postulates, shot, speculation, stab, supposal,
     suppose, supposing, supposition, surmise, suspect,
     take for granted, tentatively suggest, thesis, think,
     unverified supposition, venture a guess, wild guess,
     working hypothesis