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Conjecture

noun

1.

A hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence). Synonym: speculation. "He dismissed it as mere conjecture"

2.

A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence. Synonyms: guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise.

3.

Reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence.

verb

(past & past part. conjectured; pres. part. conjecturing)

1.

To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds. Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize.

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"Conjecture" Quotes from Famous Books

... certain event which changed his view of things in general; "ever since," "since that November," "for now nearly five years I have felt." These and similar phrases constantly occur in his diary. I will speak in a moment of what nature I should conjecture it to have been. ...

— Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge • Arthur Christopher Benson

... in such cases and under similar circumstances, in the absence of positive knowledge, we have been abundantly supplied with conjecture and speculation; what observation has failed to discover, hypothesis has endeavored and professed to supply. It is quite unnecessary even to enumerate the different substances to which malaria has been referred. Amongst them are all of the chemical products and compounds possible in ...

— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring

... for a century in a rubbish heap of an attic. I believe it has not been questioned that this was the veritable necklace which the court jeweller, Boehmer, hoped to sell to Marie Antoinette, although how it came to be in the Chateau de Chaumont no one has been able to form even a conjecture. For a hundred years it was supposed that the necklace had been broken up in London, and its half a thousand stones, great and small, sold separately. It has always seemed strange to me that the Countess de Lamotte-Valois, ...

— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... place assigned to it in the newspaper, and a vague intimation that there was some authority for it, have caused a certain degree of credit to be attached to it. It has been copied into all the country newspapers and has given rise to a good deal of conjecture and speculation, which it is far from ...

— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria

... the longitude of 158 degrees, I observed the variation to be no more than 4 degrees. On the 22nd of that month, the needle was in continual agitation, without resting in any of the eight points; which led me to conjecture that we were near ...

— Early Australian Voyages • John Pinkerton

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