Crossword-Solution: CONJECTURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Conjecture | n. | An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. |
| Conjecture | v. t. | To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. |
| Conjecture | v. i. | To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine. |
We have 57 clues for the answer “CONJECTURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | 1 answer |
| Conclude by presumption | 1 answer |
| opinion without proof | 1 answer |
| ween | 3 answers |
| MAKE out by guessing | 4 answers |
| INSPIRATION, make out by | 5 answers |
| INTUITION, make out by | 5 answers |
| MAKE out by magic | 5 answers |
| shrewd idea | 11 answers |
| approximation | 14 answers |
| supposition | 19 answers |
| Hearsay | 21 answers |
| idle chatter | 21 answers |
| "...___ speculation..." | 23 answers |
| shot in the dark | 23 answers |
| Surmise | 23 answers |
| small talk | 23 answers |
| idle talk | 25 answers |
| prophesy | 27 answers |
| inference | 28 answers |
| predict | 31 answers |
| Infer | 31 answers |
| Suppose | 32 answers |
| apply logic | 32 answers |
| posit | 33 answers |
| Theory | 36 answers |
| meddling | 39 answers |
| estimation | 39 answers |
| hypothesis | 41 answers |
| Reckon | 45 answers |
| Postulate | 47 answers |
| Believe | 48 answers |
| ideality | 48 answers |
| Anticipate | 48 answers |
| beforehand | 51 answers |
| assumption | 51 answers |
| CALL to mind | 54 answers |
| __ guess | 55 answers |
| Imagine | 55 answers |
| prediction | 57 answers |
| speculate | 58 answers |
| forecast | 59 answers |
| Estimate | 61 answers |
| Publish | 62 answers |
| presume | 65 answers |
| Propose | 69 answers |
| Assume | 70 answers |
| make known | 70 answers |
| Description. | 72 answers |
| Belief | 73 answers |
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Sentences with CONJECTURE (5)
Arme, Warriours, Arme for fight, the foe at hand, Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit This day, fear not his flight; so thick a Cloud He comes, and settl’d in his face I see Sad resolution and secure: let each His Adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his Helme, gripe fast his orbed Shield, Born eevn or high, for this day will pour down, If I conjecture aught, no drizling showr, But ratling storm of Arrows barbd with fire.
Still, this was but conjecture, and the whole series of actions was so idly put forth as to make it rash to assert that intention had any part in them at all.
Kronborg was quite right in her conjecture that there would be unfriendly comment in Moonstone when Thea raised her prices for music-lessons.
She was in terror of showing herself, lest Chauvelin’s spies happened to be about, so she had a private sitting-room, and she and Sir Andrew sat there hour after hour, trying to take, at long intervals, some perfunctory meals, which little Sally would bring them, with nothing to do but to think, to conjecture, and only occasionally to hope.
How much of this action sprang from internal motivation and how much resulted from the pressure of world opinion is a matter of conjecture.
Quotes with CONJECTURE (3)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
One reason might be that if I hadn't tripped, I'd have been hamburger. When this sort of thing occurs, people often say that there was some power greater than themselves at work. This sounds reasonable. I am just suggesting that it is not necessary to equate "greater than ourselves" with "stretched across the heavenly vault." It could mean "just slightly greater." A cocoon of energy that we carry with us, that is capable, under some conditions, of affecting physicality. Furth…
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).