conjecture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A guess or opinion based on incomplete evidence.

   Whether he understood or not is pure conjecture.

2. 2
   verb

   To guess or form an opinion without solid proof.

   I conjecture that the recipe uses two parts sugar, but I'm only guessing.

Common collocations

• mere conjecture Adjective + noun

From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject. Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)).

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