Adjective
In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
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In conjectural statements, the French often use the Future or the Conditional, instead of the Perfect or the Pluperfect used in English.
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Medicine, however, has been, and still continues to be, an art so conjectural and uncertain, that our astonishment at the anxiety with which empirics have been sought after and followed is much diminished.
Noun
Something that is conjectural; a conjecture.
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Let us not assume such previous conjecturals, but rather consult and expostulate death, since death is the wages and the reward of sin.
Adjective
based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
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theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural
the supposed reason for his absence
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suppositious reconstructions of dead languages
hypothetical situation