conjectural
/kənˈdʒɛktʃ(ə)r(ə)l
/adjective
Based on or involving conjecture: the evidence was deemed too conjectural...
- My point is why make the claim for a developed canon in the first place, especially when it is based on conjectural attributions and dates.
- It is their reliance on conjectural statements based on outward similarities that mars the book as a whole.
- Everything else - that is, the actual character of the external world and of our relationship to it - must remain conjectural or hypothetical, though some hypotheses are better than others.
Synonyms
speculative, suppositional, theoretical, hypothetical, putative, academic, notional, abstract;
postulated, based on guesswork, inferred, suspected, presumed, assumed, presupposed, tentative;
unproven, untested, unfounded, groundless, unsubstantiated
rare ideational, suppositious, suppositive, postulational
Derivatives
conjecturally
/ adverb ...- In the various models postulated so far, this feature was set conjecturally to either of the possibilities.
- As an architect he is only conjecturally associated with country houses.
- Many of the following drawings show the buildings conjecturally restored to their presumed original state, and should in no case be taken as a precise record of present appearance.
Origin
Mid 16th century: via French from Latin conjecturalis, from conjectura 'inference' (see conjecture).
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