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conjectural

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con·jec·tur·al  (kn-jkchr-l)
adj.
1. Based on or involving conjecture. See Synonyms at supposed.
2. Tending to conjecture.
con·jectur·al·ly adv.
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Adj.1.conjectural - 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"
hypothetic, hypothetical, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, divinatory, supposed
theoretic, theoretical - concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; "theoretical science"


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As regarded its origin there were various explanations, all of which must necessarily have been conjectural.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
They were yet, in fact, a thousand miles from Astoria, but the distance was unknown to them at the time: everything before and around them was vague and conjectural, and wore an aspect calculated to inspire despondency.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
She walked briskly in the brisk air, the color rose in her cheeks, and her straw bonnet (which our contemporaries might look at with conjectural curiosity as at an obsolete form of basket) fell a little backward.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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