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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

... be very much," Leibowitz said. "Not these days. I've often told Emily—that's my wife, Mr. Malone—that I could hide a TV circuit under her lipstick. Not that there would be any use in it—but the techniques are there, Mr. Malone. And if your conjecture is ...

— Out Like a Light • Gordon Randall Garrett

... despotism of emperors. What is true is that the pope and the emperor contended for the mastery, and the masses gave it to the pope. What the popes did with it we know. That is history. What the emperors would have done with it is matter for conjecture. It is very probable that they would have abused the power as badly as the popes did, but conjectural history ...

— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

... only increase the dissatisfaction by disappointing. Some advantage gained may put off clamour for some months: but I think, the longer it is suspended, the more terrible it will be; and how the war should end but in ruin, I am not wise enough to conjecture. France suspends the blow, to make it more inevitable. She has suffered us to undo ourselves: will she allow us time to recover? We have begged her indulgence in the first: will ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole

... the hour of adjournment, made his argument on the following day, when the consideration of the question was resumed. In answer to the objection that negro voting would "lead to the amalgamation of the races or social equality," he said: "On this subject there is nothing left to conjecture, and no ground for alarm. Negro suffrage has been very extensively tried in this country, and we are able to appeal to facts. Negroes had the right to vote in all the Colonies save one, under the Articles of ...

— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes

... If a conjecture may be hazarded, the decision will probably depend mainly on one consideration, viz., which of the two systems is consistent with the greatest amount of human liberty and spontaneity. It is yet to be ascertained whether the communistic scheme would be consistent with that multiform development ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

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