Conjectural

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Meaning

In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture..

Definitions by Sense

1. In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
2. Something that is conjectural; a conjecture.

Example Sentences

In conjectural statements, the French often use the Future or the Conditional, instead of the Perfect or the Pluperfect used in English.

Medicine, however, has been, and still continues to be, an art so conjectural and uncertain, that our astonishment at the anxiety with which empirics have been sought after and followed is much diminished.

Let us not assume such previous conjecturals, but rather consult and expostulate death, since death is the wages and the reward of sin.

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• more conjectural
• most conjectural
• conjecturals

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