conjecturing
present participle ofconjecture
conjecture
verb[I]
formaluk/kənˈdʒek.tʃər/us/kənˈdʒek.tʃɚ/toguess,basedon theappearanceof asituationand not onproof:
We'll neverknowexactlyhow shedied; we can only conjecture.
[+ that]He conjecturedthatthecompanywouldsoonbe infinancialtrouble.
Synonyms
hypothesizeformal
speculate
suppose
surmiseformal
theorize
to guess
- guessGuess who called yesterday?
- estimateThey estimate that the work will take at least ten weeks.
- divineMum had divined my state of mind rather shrewdly.
- surmiseFrom the expression on his face, she surmised that something bad had happened.
- conjectureIt would be reasonable to conjecture that lack of exercise contributed to his obesity.
- speculateA spokesperson declined to speculate on the cause of the plane crash.
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- approximate
- as muchidiom
- call
- conjecture
- consider
- deem
- fall
- hypothesize
- jump
- jump to conclusionsidiom
- mark
- marksomeonedown assomething
- misjudge
- misjudgment
- presume
- smell
- speculate
- surmise
- think
- think ofsomething
Examplesofconjecturing
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Conjecturingmay be a useful step even in natural philosophy.
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Explanatory diagnosisconjecturingactions to explain observations.
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It is a trade newspaper and there has been noconjecturingby me.
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I think though that he has gone far into the realms ofconjecturingabout situations that will never arise.
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If the money were available, one could spend the next hourconjecturingthe sort of project on which one could spend it.
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On these benches we have beenconjecturingwhether there would be an addition of is.
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We are merelyconjecturingin the dark.
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The surprise omission led to muchconjecturingabout the reasoning.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To learn mathematics in any depth, students should be engaged in exploring,conjecturing, and thinking, as well as in rote learning of rules and procedures.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If an observer did not know how the images were generated, that observer might end upconjecturingabout the movement of some particle-like objects.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Rodgers loping and melancholy vocal ornamentations have been described as that famous blue yodel that defies the rational andconjecturingmind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Moore credited part of the theatrical success to the efforts of conservative groups to pressure theaters not to run the film,conjecturingthat these efforts backfired by creating publicity.
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