conjectural

from 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}]
    
from 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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from 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

    

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