Definitions
to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.”
“The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.”
“I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Tentative guess”10 letters
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