The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Latin conjecturalis "belonging to conjecture," from conjectura (see conjecture). Related: Conjecturally (mid-15c.).
Wiktionary
a. In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture. n. Something that is conjectural; a conjecture.
WordNet
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: divinatory, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
Usage examples of "conjectural".
His mind was going and going, outracing the car, running on ahead of his thoughts, fibrillating like a bad heart until suddenly it stopped, dead still, conjectural operations ceased, and a clear bracing coldness descended through his overheated body in one long slow continuous wave.
In broadcasting your audience is conjectural, but it is an audience of one.
For to prevent your conjectural interference from doing him a more serious mischief, I will now, and here, if you please, divulge the true and only cause of his absconding.
Thus did the worthy pair link together conjectural cause and effect, on principles which their habit of mind dictated.
They were yet, in fact, a thousand miles from Astoria, but the distance was unknown to them at the time: everything before and around them was vague and conjectural, and wore an aspect calculated to inspire despondency.
The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be.
I've been doing some thinking about this conjectural parallel universe of yours.
For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds.