conjecture
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Is conjecture a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.Examples: "I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not."countableformaluncountable
2. (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.Examples: "The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment."countableformaluncountable
3. (mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.countableuncountable
4. (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.Examples: "I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here."; "What could have been done by such a machine downhill can only be conjectured, for the maximum speed was restricted rigidly to 80 m.p.h."formalintransitive
2. (transitive) To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.Examples: "February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)"; ""Most likely he who is the shorter of the two;—no! he goes in the first, and is, of course, the eldest; but we have no time for conjecturing now." Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be."transitive
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