Word Meanings - MISCONJECTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wrong conjecture or guess. Sir T. Browne.

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• GUESS
  cf. Dan. giette to guess, Icel. geta to get, to guess. Probably 1. To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture. First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess. Pope. 2. To judge or
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• CONJECTURE
  An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• GUESS ROPE
  A guess warp.
• GUESSER
  One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
• GUESS WARP
  A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
• GUESSINGLY
  By way of conjecture. Shak.
• WRONG-TIMED
  Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
• WRONGNESS
  The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.
• WRONGDOER
  One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
• GUESSIVE
  Conjectural. Feltham.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• WRONGHEADED
  Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.
• WRONGER
  One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
• 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.
• MISGUESS
  To guess wrongly.
• AWRONG
  Wrongly. Ford.
• SELF-WRONG
  Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.