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Conjectural vs Uncertain - What's the difference?

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Conjectural is a related term of uncertain.


As adjectives the difference between conjectural and uncertain

is that conjectural is in the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture while uncertain is not certain; unsure.

As a noun conjectural

is something that is conjectural; a conjecture.

conjectural

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
  • * 1863 , Jules Festu, Practical lessons on the comparative construction of the verb in the French and English languages
    • In conjectural statements, the French often use the Future or the Conditional, instead of the Perfect or the Pluperfect used in English.
  • * 1844 , Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, On Superstitions Connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * hypothetical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is conjectural; a conjecture.
  • * 1821 , Richard Franck, Northern memoirs (page 15)
    • 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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    uncertain

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not certain; unsure.
  • *(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
  • *:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
  • Not known for certain; questionable.
  • :
  • Not yet determined; undecided.
  • Variable and subject to change.
  • Fitful or unsteady.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • Unpredictable or capricious.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!

    • Antonyms

    * certain

    Related terms

    * uncertainly, uncertainty

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