conjecture

n. முன்னறி கூற்று, ஊகம், சான்றில்லாமல் அல்லது அற்பச் சான்றினடியாகக் கொண்ட கருத்து, உய்த்துணர்வு, உத்தேசம், அனுமானம், கற்பனை, எண்ணம், (வி.) ஊகம் பண்ணு, அனுமானம்செய், குத்தாயமாகக் கருது, போதிய சான்றில்லாமல் கற்பனை செய்.

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Synonyms

#verb guest, divination, hypothesis, theory, notion, surmise,supposition #noun

Antonyms

#verb computation, calculation, inference, reckoning, proof,deduction #noun

Con*jec"ture, n. Etym: [L. conjectura, fr. conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture; con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See Jet a shooting forth.] Defn: An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton. Con*jec"ture, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Conjectured; p.pr. & vb.n. Conjecturing.] Etym: [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. Conject.] Defn: To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning. Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be. South. Con*jec"ture, v. i. Defn: To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

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