adjective
- Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence.
- usage: "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"
- synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, supposititious
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