CONJECTURAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conjectural mean? 

• CONJECTURAL (adjective)
  The adjective CONJECTURAL has 1 sense:

1. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

  Familiarity information: CONJECTURAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONJECTURAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

Synonyms:

conjectural; divinatory; hypothetic; hypothetical; supposed; suppositional; suppositious; supposititious

Context example:

hypothetical situation

Similar:

theoretic; theoretical (concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations)

Derivation:

conjecture (reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence)

conjecture (a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence))

conjecture (a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence)

 Context examples 

The Intervention Community Trial is a controlled study that involves modification of causal or conjectural causal factors in a population to test a cause-effect relationship.

(Intervention Community Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

Had both the children been there, the affair might have been determined too easily by measuring them at once; but as Harry only was present, it was all conjectural assertion on both sides; and every body had a right to be equally positive in their opinion, and to repeat it over and over again as often as they liked.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Elinor could not suppose that Sir John would be more nice in proclaiming his suspicions of her regard for Edward, than he had been with respect to Marianne; indeed it was rather his favourite joke of the two, as being somewhat newer and more conjectural; and since Edward's visit, they had never dined together without his drinking to her best affections with so much significancy and so many nods and winks, as to excite general attention.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)