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a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinion- She dismissed it as mere conjecture.
conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
- It is important to distinguish between conjecture and fact.
- Whether or not he acted alone is a matter of conjecture.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- This account rather alarmed us, and we continued to search for him until night fell, when Elizabeth conjectured that he might have returned to the house.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - However, these conjectures are vague and fallible.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- And although this were little better than conjecture, yet I resolved to steer my course eastward, hoping to reach the south-west coast of New Holland,Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- There has been a great deal of conjecture about what caused such a precipitous decline.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour;
And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me
Which I would fain shut out.William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well - ...I busied myself in vain, unconnected conjecture.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
- My whole examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- I will not deny that you conjecture rightly.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- To be guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful.Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- In short, I could learn nothing but that she was gone; all the rest, for eight long months, was left to conjecture.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- there was no time to pause and conjectureEdith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- But this is matter only for conjecture, things having gone otherwise than he forecast.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
- But this is conjecture.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- Mostly they were focused on me, whispering, nodding, conjecturing on who I was.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = not known for sure — guessing or forming a conclusion based on inconclusive evidence
conjectured = guessed based on inconclusive evidence
conjectures = conclusions or opinions
conjectures = guesses (opinions based on inconclusive evidence)
conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = forming opinions or conclusions based upon inconclusive evidence
conjectural = guessed (not known to be true)
conjecture = forming conclusions based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = form an opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = think about and form an opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecture = speculation (to form a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence)
conjecture = a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
conjecturing = forming conclusions (or guesses) based on inconclusive evidence