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[syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
conjectural
adj 1: 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"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural,
divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed,
suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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