Word Meanings - CONJECTURAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful. And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. Shak. A slight expense of conjectural analogy. Hugh Miller. Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural.
Additional info about word: CONJECTURAL
Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful. And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. Shak. A slight expense of conjectural analogy. Hugh Miller. Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural. Carlyle.
Related words: (words related to CONJECTURAL)
- SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - EDITORIAL
Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. editorial content - EDITORIALLY
In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article. - IMAGINARY
Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - CONJECTURER
One who conjectures. Hobbes. - IMAGINARINESS
The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner. - DOUBTFULLY
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. - IMAGINE
1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. 2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to - IMAGINATIONALISM
Idealism. J. Grote. - UNDETERMINABLE
Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke. - IMAGINARILY
In a imaginary manner; in imagination. B. Jonson. - DEPENDENT
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; - REMAIN
re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not - IMAGINABLE
Capable of being imagined; conceivable. Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable. Tillotson. -- Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv. - IMAGINATE
Imaginative. Holland. - IMAGINABILITY
Capacity for imagination. Coleridge. - UNDETERMINATION
Indetermination. Sir M. Hale. - IMAGINATION
1. The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, - FOREGUESS
To conjecture. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - BIRD FANCIER
1. One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds. 2. One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages. - EXCHANGE EDITOR
An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication. - INIMAGINABLE
Unimaginable; inconceivable. Bp. Pearson. - MISGUESS
To guess wrongly.