In conjectural statements, the French often use the Future or the Conditional, instead of the Perfect or the Pluperfect used in English.
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Conjectural
Synonyms for "conjectural" (94 found)
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doubtabledoubtfuldubiousdubitableexperimentalhypothetichypotheticalidealiffyimpracticalin disputein doubtin dubioin questionmistakablemootnotionalopen to doubt
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Adjective(20 words)
proposedrough guessworkspeculativesupposedsuppositionalsuppositioussupposititioustheoretictheoreticaltheoretical chemistrytheoretical descriptor concepttheoretical evidencetheoretical importancetheoretical instructiontheoretical microbiologytheoretical studytheoretical taskunnecessary guessworkunprovenvague reasoning
Noun(8 words)
rumoringspeculatingspeculative thinkingsubjunctivesurmisingtheoretical approachtheoretical biologytheorizing
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Medicine, however, has been, and still continues to be, an art so conjectural and uncertain, that our astonishment at the anxiety with which empirics have been sought after and followed is much diminished.
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Let us not assume such previous conjecturals, but rather consult and expostulate death, since death is the wages and the reward of sin.
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