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conjectural

adjective

Based on an unproved guess or inference.

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The reconstruction of the missing scene is necessarily conjectural.
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A library group considered a hypothetical plan to extend a small reading event into a full weekend program. Their attendance forecast was conjectural because it rested on only two earlier evenings and several untested assumptions about interest.
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