Synonyms of conjectured

conjectured 1 of 2

adjective

as in guessed

Related Words

• guessed
• alleged
• presumed
• suspected
• assumed
• surmised
• justifiable
• excusable
• defensible
• warrantable
• vindicable
• demonstrable
• provable
• well-founded
• verifiable
• empirical
• documentable
• checkable
• certifiable
• confirmable
• supportable
• sustainable

Dissimilar Words

• unprovable
• unverifiable
• unsustainable
• unsupportable
• insupportable
• debatable
• indemonstrable
• disputable
• refutable
• disprovable

conjectured

2 of 2

verb

past tense of conjecture

1

as in estimated

to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement

he conjectured that the theater could seat 1000 people more or less

Synonyms & Similar Words

• estimated
• calculated
• figured
• guessed
• made
• supposed
• gauged
• judged
• reckoned
• put
• called
• placed
• concluded
• understood
• deduced
• reasoned
• inferred
• extrapolated
• gathered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• measured
• computed
• calibrated
• scaled
• worked out

2

as in assumed

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

you're only conjecturing that he was the culprit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guessed
• assumed
• presumed
• supposed
• speculated
• suspected
• surmised
• thought
• imagined
• believed
• suspicioned
• deduced
• inferred
• concluded
• hypothesized
• theorized
• daresaid
• expected
• gathered
• conceived
• reckoned
• judged
• hypothecated
• took

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• established
• proved
• demonstrated
• documented
• determined
• learned
• ascertained
• validated
• substantiated
• found out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of conjectured

Verb

Johannes Kepler, the German polymath famous for his laws of planetary motion, conjectured that this arrangement was optimal back in 1611. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026

From there, Langlands conjectured the existence of a family of correspondences between objects, symmetries, and properties. — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026

To be more precise, Erdős conjectured that the number of unit distances would be n^(1+o(1)). — ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026

Some legal observers have conjectured the 8th Circuit’s reversal of her injunction prompted her to stay her hand, over a concern that the appeals court would overrule her again. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026

Some task force workers conjectured that the ease of use and convenience of a prepackaged device might prompt more folks to test their drugs, especially those who are younger. — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026