conjectural
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
noun
Something that is conjectural; a conjecture.
Example Sentences
- "In conjectural statements, the French often use the Future or the Conditional, instead of the Perfect or the Pluperfect used in English."
- "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."
- "Let us not assume such previous conjecturals, but rather consult and expostulate death, since death is the wages and the reward of sin."
Etymology
Etymology tree English conjecture Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English conjectural From conjecture + -al.