CONJECTURE
10 letters
21 Scrabble points
Definition of CONJECTURE
noun
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A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
"I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not."
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A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
"The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment."
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(philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
Related words:
halseny
verb
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To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
"I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here."
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To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.
Source: Wiktionary
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Length
10 letters
Scrabble Score
21 points