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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conjectural \Con*jec"tur*al\, a. [L. conjecturalis: cf F. conjectural.] Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at undetermined; doubtful. And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me --Shak. A slight expense of conjectural analogy. --Hugh Miller. Who or what such editor may be must remain conjectural. --Carlyle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: conjectural adj : 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"; "supposititious hypotheses" [syn: {supposed}, {suppositional}, {suppositious}, {supposititious}]
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