conjectural
Speech parts
1. conjectural - Noun
2. conjectural - Adjective
3. conjectural - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.
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Examples
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.
These models are of course so simple that any more detailed comparison between them and living creatures would be purely conjectural.
theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
the supposed reason for his absence
suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
hypothetical situation