conjecture

[Con*jec·ture]

Can you guess what conjecture means? It's a word to use when you are not sure of something and have to "guess or surmise."

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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

Noun
reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence

Noun
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"

Noun
a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

Verb
to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"


n.
An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

v. t.
To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.

v. i.
To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.


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.
He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature.
Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.

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.
Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.

Conjecture

Con*jec"ture, v. i. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.

To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

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Usage Examples

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

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Other Usage Examples

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

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