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单词 conjectural
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Definition of conjectural in English:

conjectural

adjective kənˈdʒɛktʃ(ə)r(ə)lkənˈdʒɛktʃərəl
  • Based on or involving conjecture.

    the evidence was deemed too conjectural
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Prying apart the text, he located discrepancies between the author's conjectural inferences and the evidence actually offered in support of those inferences.
    • 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.
    • Certainly, where the evidence in question is equivocal, in the sense of ambiguous and uncertain and conjectural in nature, the probative force is of such diminished significance as to be valueless.
    • Citing the findings of previous interpreters could also be a way of letting readers know that a translation was itself a conjectural reconstruction open to refutation.
    • The vignettes that follow are conjectural, but they may suggest ways in which his life as we know it found its way into his art.
    • The foregoing is conjectural, and is intended more to suggest an approach to establishing action on behalf of the future than to prescribe specifics.
    • Altered estrogen receptor sensitivity is another possible abnormality, but like the estrogen-androgen imbalance suggestion, it is completely conjectural.
    • Although this sort of analogy to herd-living, open-country ungulates will always be somewhat conjectural, it is far from being completely speculative.
    • The defendant says the elements of the loss must be established with reasonable certainty, and must not be speculative or conjectural.
    • It is their reliance on conjectural statements based on outward similarities that mars the book as a whole.
    • Her inspiring words were the only remnants other than my conjectural thoughts that I allowed to follow my every flight.
    • Yet, it does not explain why its proponents don't believe in unicorns, leprechauns or other such conjectural entities, all of which also lie outside the imagined boundaries of science.
    • 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.
    • Gone are the days when scientists could look at the state as a bottomless pit of resources for often conjectural studies.
    • It is preoccupied with hypothetical origins and conjectural future ends.
    • Fears of conjectural health risk from the pesticides themselves, as well as environmental concerns, would have swamped the valid arguments for the employment of such techniques.
    • A conjectural science, which teaches to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretell future events by the situation and different aspects of the heavenly bodies.
    • Address your fears with conjectural theory and speculation.
    • Watson and Crick were determined to try to build a conjectural model of the structure of DNA.
    • Despite increased understanding of the nature of the disease in general, the factors that contribute to symptomatic destabilization are little studied and much remains conjectural.
    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 kənˈdʒɛktʃ(ə)rəlikənˈdʒɛk(t)ʃ(ə)rəli
    • Fortunately, the sender and receiver can use a short key instead: long keys are (conjecturally) computationally indistinguishable from suitable functions of short keys.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the various models postulated so far, this feature was set conjecturally to either of the possibilities.
      • 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.
      • After looking at all of the period pictures of pavilions that we could readily find and failing to find any period descriptions of how they were made, we concluded that the best we could manage would be a conjecturally period pavilion - one consistent with what we knew about period pavilions and period materials.
      • As an architect he is only conjecturally associated with country houses.

Origin

Mid 16th century: via French from Latin conjecturalis, from conjectura 'inference' (see conjecture).

 
 

Definition of conjectural in US English:

conjectural

adjectivekənˈdʒɛktʃərəlkənˈjekCHərəl
  • Based on or involving conjecture.

    much of the racial history of Madagascar remains conjectural
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet, it does not explain why its proponents don't believe in unicorns, leprechauns or other such conjectural entities, all of which also lie outside the imagined boundaries of science.
    • Certainly, where the evidence in question is equivocal, in the sense of ambiguous and uncertain and conjectural in nature, the probative force is of such diminished significance as to be valueless.
    • It is their reliance on conjectural statements based on outward similarities that mars the book as a whole.
    • The foregoing is conjectural, and is intended more to suggest an approach to establishing action on behalf of the future than to prescribe specifics.
    • Prying apart the text, he located discrepancies between the author's conjectural inferences and the evidence actually offered in support of those inferences.
    • 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.
    • The defendant says the elements of the loss must be established with reasonable certainty, and must not be speculative or conjectural.
    • Her inspiring words were the only remnants other than my conjectural thoughts that I allowed to follow my every flight.
    • Fears of conjectural health risk from the pesticides themselves, as well as environmental concerns, would have swamped the valid arguments for the employment of such techniques.
    • A conjectural science, which teaches to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretell future events by the situation and different aspects of the heavenly bodies.
    • Altered estrogen receptor sensitivity is another possible abnormality, but like the estrogen-androgen imbalance suggestion, it is completely conjectural.
    • Citing the findings of previous interpreters could also be a way of letting readers know that a translation was itself a conjectural reconstruction open to refutation.
    • Gone are the days when scientists could look at the state as a bottomless pit of resources for often conjectural studies.
    • The vignettes that follow are conjectural, but they may suggest ways in which his life as we know it found its way into his art.
    • 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 preoccupied with hypothetical origins and conjectural future ends.
    • Despite increased understanding of the nature of the disease in general, the factors that contribute to symptomatic destabilization are little studied and much remains conjectural.
    • Watson and Crick were determined to try to build a conjectural model of the structure of DNA.
    • Address your fears with conjectural theory and speculation.
    • Although this sort of analogy to herd-living, open-country ungulates will always be somewhat conjectural, it is far from being completely speculative.
    Synonyms
    speculative, suppositional, theoretical, hypothetical, putative, academic, notional, abstract

Origin

Mid 16th century: via French from Latin conjecturalis, from conjectura ‘inference’ (see conjecture).

 
 
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