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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abstract, academic, arguable, armchair, at issue, confutable, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, iffy, impractical, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, mistakable, moot, notional, open to doubt, open to question, postulatory, problematic, putative, questionable, refutable, reputed, speculative, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, suspect, suspicious, theoretical

Dictionary Results for conjectural:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

conjectural
    adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence;
           "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still
           highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his
           absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead
           languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural,
           divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed,
           suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Conjectural \Con*jec"tur*al\, a. [L. conjecturalis: cf. F.
   conjectural.]
   Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at;
   undetermined; doubtful.
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         And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me. --Shak.
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         A slight expense of conjectural analogy. --Hugh Miller.
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         Who or what such editor may be, must remain
         conjectural.                             --Carlyle.
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