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conjectural

/kuhn-jek-cher-uhl/US // kənˈdʒɛk tʃər əl //UK // (kənˈdʒɛktʃərəl) //

推测的,推测性的,猜测的,猜想的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, of the nature of, or involving conjecture; problematical: Theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are highly conjectural.
    • : given to making conjectures: a conjectural thinker.

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Examples

  • Perhaps even more surprising, Richards delivered a highly delineated description, a compact conjectural map, of the mental steps involved in reading and interpreting a poem.

  • Upon such a tissue of conjectural absurdities the wonderful opinion of the immortality of the soul is built.

  • The transcription of Dr. Crusius, with his conjectural restorations, will be found in the Appendix.

  • What the passages between him and Friedrich Wilhelm were, on this occasion, shall remain conjectural to all creatures.

  • In these parts, the paths of the curves are to some extent conjectural.

  • All our attempts to discover origins far behind history must be conjectural.