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Pure vs Conjectural - What's the difference?

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Pure is a synonym of conjectural.


As nouns the difference between pure and conjectural

is that pure is puree, while conjectural is something that is conjectural; a conjecture.

As an adjective conjectural is

in the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.

pure

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
  • (senseid)Free of foreign material or pollutants.
  • * (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
    • A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
  • Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
  • * Bible, v. 22
    • Keep thyself pure .
  • (label) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
  • (label) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
  • (label) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

    • Synonyms

    * perfect * innocent * See also

    Antonyms

    * impure, contaminated * (done for its own sake) applied

    Derived terms

    * pure finder * as pure as the driven snow

    Related terms

    * purification * purify * purity * puritan * puritanism * purist * purism

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
    • You’re pure busy.

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    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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