Thesaurus: conjecture

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1. n. An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
2. v. t. To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
3. v. i. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.
4. n. a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
5. n. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
6. n. reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
7. v. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
8. An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton. To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. South. To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.
9. An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptiveevidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjectureby a real study of nature. Whewell.Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.
10. v:26/n:74 n. reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence