Conjecture

Definition: Conjecture

Conjecture

Noun

1. A hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture".

2. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.

3. Reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence.

Verb

1. To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds: "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "conjecture" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Conjecture

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture.

Conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot, shot in the dark; conjecturality; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness).

Crosswords: Conjecture

French (assumption, conjecture, guess, guesswork, supposition, surmise).

Books

• Conjecture and Proof (reference)

• Goldbach Conjecture (reference)

• Model Theory and Algebraic Geometry: An Introduction to E. Hrushovski's Proof of the Geometric Mordell-Lang Conjecture (Lecture Notes in Mathematics) (reference)

• On Artin's Conjecture for Odd 2-Dimensional Representations (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1585) (reference)

• The Art of Causal Conjecture (Artificial Intelligence) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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I wish I could conjecture how soon I shall make this rivet quite firm.

No conjecture was possible.

I slept well, and I conjecture at least six hours, for I found the day broke in two hours after I awaked.

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Business

However, there is no simple way to do this since such early information gathering necessarily rests on informal networking and skillful conjecture. (references)

Economic History

Finland

The origins of the Finnish people are still a matter of conjecture, although many scholars argue that their original home was in what is now west-central Siberia. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "conjecture": put forward conjecture. Additional references.

Albanian

supozoj (assume, calculate, expect, guess, hypothesize, imagine, make, make advances to, presume, presuppose, rate, reckon for, suppose), supozim (assumption, calculation, guess, guesswork, presumption, presupposition, supposition), hamendje (divination, guess), hamendësoj (hypothesize, surmise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حدس (anticipation, intuition, surmise). (various references)

Bulgarian 

конйектура, внасям поправка на текст, предположение (assumption, guess, hypothesis, if, postulate, presumption, presupposition, speculation, suggestion, supposition, surmise), предполагам (assume, believe, divine, expect, guess, imagine, implicate, imply, postulate, presume, presuppose, reckon, suppose, suspect, take, take a notion, think, think for, ween), догаждам се, догадка (guess, surmise). (various references)

Chinese 

臆想 (Conjectured, Conjecturing), 猜度 (surmise), 猜測 (guess, surmise), 推測 (speculate, speculation, surmise), 測 (side, to lean, to measure, to survey), 假設 (suppose if...). (various references)

Czech

vyslovovat domnìnky, tušit (forebode, presage, sense, smell, surmise, suspect), domnívat se (assume, expect, feel, guess, hold, judge, opine, presume, suppose, think), domnìnka (assumption, belief, guess, hypothesis, supposition, surmise), dohadovat se (surmise), dohad (guess, surmise). (various references)

Dutch

vermoeden (guess, presume, suppose, supposition, surmise), gissen (guess, surmise). (various references)

Esperanto

konjekto (guess, guesswork), konjekti (surmise). (various references)

Faeroese

skjóta upp á (surmise), meta (appraise, estimate, rate, surmise), ætla (destine, earmark, intend, mean, ordain, surmise). (various references)

Farsi 

گمان بردن (Surmise), گمان (Aim, Assumption, Belief, Doubt, Guess, Idea, Impression, Opinion, Supposition, Surmise, Thought), حدس زدن (Guess, Guesstimate, Imagine, Rede, Surmise), حدس (Aim, Guess, Surmise), تخمین (Approximation, Assessment, Estimate, Guess, Surmise), ظن (Guess, Hunch, Surmise). (various references)

Finnish

otaksua (assume, suppose, surmise, take for granted). (various references)

French

conjecturer. (various references)

German

vermutung (assumption, guess, guesswork, presumption, speculation, suggestion, supposition, surmise, suspicion), mutmaßen (surmise, to suppose). (various references)

Greek 

συμπέρασμα (conclusion, deduction, induction, inference, upshot), συμπερασμόσ (implication), συμπεραίνω (conclude, deduce, infer, presume), υπόθεση (affair, assumption, business, case, cause, concern, hypothesis, matter, premise, presumption, shebang, supposition), εικάζω (extrapolate, guess, speculate), εικασία (guess, guesswork, speculation). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשער (approximate, assume, suppose, surmise), ל� חש (augur, divine, estimate, figure out, foretell, guess, predict, surmise), סבר�" (logical argument, opinion, presumption, speculation, supposition, surmise, view), � חוש (determined, divination, foretelling, guess, prediction, set, shot, surmise). (various references)

Hungarian

sejtés (boding, foreknowledge, guess, hunch, idea, suspicion), találgatás (guess, guessing). (various references)

Indonesian

pengagak (guess). (various references)

Italian

congetturare (guess, surmise), congettura (calculation, guess, speculation, surmise), ipotizzare (speculate), ipotesi (assumption, fiction, hypoth, hypothesis, se, speculation, supposition), immaginarsi (imagine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

臆説 (hypothesis), 臆断 , 推測 (guess), 推察 (guess, surmise), 思議 (guess), 憶断 (jumping to hasty conclusions), �"て推量 (guesswork), 忖度 (guess), 察し (consideration, guess, judgment). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいそく (guess), すいさつ (guess, surmise), おくせつ (hypothesis, speculation, surmise), おく� �" (jumping to hasty conclusions), しぎ (city assemblyman, conference, consultation, criticism behind one's back, developments, guess, outcome, personal opinion, practice jump, sandpiper, situation, snipe), そ�"たく (guess, your house), さっし (book, booklet, brush, commutator brush, consideration, guess, judgment, notebook, pamphlet, story book), あてずいりょう (guesswork). (various references)

Manx

tuarym (estimation, guess, guesswork, opinion, review, surmise, view, viewpoint), shein (guess, imagine, presume, speculate, suppose), sheiltynys (concept, fancy, fantasy, hypothesis, presumption, speculation, supposition, theory), sheiltyn (conceive, conceiving, fancy, guess, imagine, presume, speculate, suppose, supposing, theorize, visualize), far-vriwnys (prejudice, unfair judgement). (various references)

Pig Latin

onjecturecay

Portuguese

supor (assume, consider, dream, expect, fancy, guess, imagine, make out, presume, see, suppose, surmise, think, ween), conjeturar (guess, presume, presuppose, suppose, surmise), conjetura (case, guess, guesswork, speculation, supposition, surmise). (various references)

Romanian

conivenţã (connivance, guess, surmise), supoziţie (if, speculation, supposition), speculaţie (hypothesis, speculation, theory), presupunere (assumption, guess, idea, if, presumption, speculation, supposition, surmise), presupune (assume, calculate, expect, fancy oneself, feel, imagine, imply, infer, presume, suppose, surmise, suspect), ipotezã (assumption, hypothesis, speculation, suggestion, theory), ghici (discover, divine, feel, foresee, foretell, guess, Rede, surmise), face presupuneri (imagine, speculate), bãnuialã (anticipation, apprehension, discredit, distrust, doubt, foresight, hunch, idea, inkling, jealousy, mistrust, presumption, supposition, surmise, suspicion), bãnui (anticipate, distrust, doubt, feel, foreknow, foresee, guess, imagine, mistrust, presume, smoke, sniff, suppose, surmise, suspect, think). (various references)

Russian 

предположение (assumption, contemplation, guess, presumption, presupposition, speculation, supposition), предполагать (anticipate, assume, be supposed to, expect, guess, imagine, presume, presuming, presuppose, suppose, supposes, supposing, surmise, understand), догадка (guess, guesswork, guess-work, inkling). (various references)

Scottish

tuaiream (a guess, vicinity), barail (contention, opinion). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pretpostavljati (believe, guess, presume, ween), pretpostavka (assumption, hypothesis, postulation, presumption, supposition, surmise). (various references)

Spanish

conjeturar (guess, surmise), conjetura (assumption, guess, guesswork, shot, supposition, surmise), suposición (assumption, fancy, guess, presumption, supposition, surmise), suponer que (assume, fancy, take), presunción (assumption, conceit, pomposity, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, priggishness, self-assertion, self-importance, smugness), presumir (assume, fancy, presume, show off, suppose, suspect, swank, to assume, to suspect), oponer (pit, play off, put up). (various references)

Swedish

gissning (guess, surmise), gissa (divine, guess, imagine). (various references)

Turkish

zannetmek (deem, guess, suppose, surmise, take for, think), varsaymak (count, deem, hypothesize, posit, presume, reckon as, reckon for, say, suppose), varsayım (guess, guesswork, hypothesis, supposition), tahmin etmek (anticipate, calculate, cast off, divine, dope, dope out, estimate, extrapolate, forecast, guess, judge, presume, put down, suppose, surmise, take stock of), tahmin (approximation, calculation, divination, estimate, estimation, forecast, guess, judgement, outlook, prediction, presumption, presupposition, prognostication, prophecy, shot, speculation, supposition, surmise), sanmak (assume, expect, fancy, flatter oneself, guess, imagine, presume, put down, repute, suppose, surmise, take, take for, think), kestirmek (cause to cut, doze, estimate, get some sleep, have a nap, have a snooze, nap, perceive, snooze, take a nap, zizz). (various references)

Ukrainian

гадати (allot, consider, deem, opine, propose, suppose), припускати (accept, acknowledge, admit, concede, infer, presume, propose, surmise, understand), припущення (admission, assumption, calculation, guess, hypothesis, inference, perhaps, presumption, presupposition, subaudition, suppose, supposition, surmise, theory). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phỏng đoán (guess-work, surmise). (various references)

Welsh

dyfalu (guess), dyfaliad (guess). (various references)

augurabimini, augurandi, augurari, conicio, conjectura, opinio. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "conjecture": conjectured, conjecturer, conjecturers, conjectures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conjecture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comjecture, conjacture. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: concrete.

-3 letters: coenure, coerect, concert, conjure, cornute, counter, ejector, recount, trounce.

-4 letters: cenote, center, centre, coerce, concur, cornet, couter, encore, jounce, neuter, recent, reject, retune, tenour, tenrec, tenure, tureen.

-5 letters: cento, centu, conte, cornu, count, court, crone, cruet, curet, cuter, eject, enter, enure, erect, eruct, jeton, junco, junto, noter, occur, ounce, outer, outre, recce.

+1 letter: conjectured, conjecturer, conjectures.

+2 letters: conjecturers.

+4 letters: counterproject.

+5 letters: counterprojects.