Definition of Conjecture

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Conjecture

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.

To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

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Conjecture Quotations

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater

And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.
Will Arnett

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
John Wesley Powell

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
Alexander Dubcek

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.
Marguerite Gardiner

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
Arthur Machen

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.
Tom Wopat

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
Hannes Alfven

Conjecture Translations

conjecture in Dutch is vermoeden, gissen
conjecture in Finnish is otaksua
conjecture in French is conjecturer
conjecture in German is Vermutung
conjecture in Latin is conicio, opinio
conjecture in Swedish is gissa, gissning

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