| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | в таких вопросах бесполезно заниматься домыслами, нужно точно знать факты | about such matters it is useless to speculate, what we need is exact knowledge |
| law | возражение по необоснованным рассуждениям, домыслам | speculation objection (Speculation is another objection which is available to the lawyers involved in a trial case. ... The first form of the speculation objection would be an objection against a question which calls for the witness to speculate, or to provide an answer to a question which he or she would obviously not know the answer to. Tatiana Okunskaya) |
| gen. | всевозможные домыслы | all manner of speculation (In a developing story with far more questions than answers, U.S. fighter jets shot down three UFOs that had been detected over North America this past weekend, fueling all manner of speculation, including the possibility that the objects were alien in nature.  coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | газетная статья, основанная на домыслах | a newpaper article based on supposition |
| gen. | газетная статья, основанная на домыслах | a newspaper article based on supposition |
| gen. | досужие домыслы | idle speculation (Anglophile) |
| Игорь Миг | досужие домыслы | easy assumptions |
| gen. | досужие домыслы | wild speculation (Anglophile) |
| gen. | его слова о женитьбе вызвали волну домыслов в прессе | his words on marriage have prompted a flurry of speculation in the press |
| gen. | заниматься домыслами | be trafficking in conjecture (to deal or engage in speculation, rumors, or unverified information • - You two wouldn't be trafficking in conjecture, would you? – No.
– Wouldn't dream of it Taras) |
| gen. | заниматься домыслами | speculate |
| proverb | история обрастает домыслами | a tale never loses in the telling (Leonid Dzhepko) |
| neol. | ложные домыслы в форме новостей | fake news (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| journ. | не утихают домыслы по поводу | speculation has been rife over (Workers discover three human skulls while laying foundation for a new home. The grisly discovery was made by construction crews working at a building site in Narrumson Road, New Jersey. Since then, speculation has been rife over who the mysterious victims could be. (unexplained-mysteries.com) • Но вокруг молодоженов не утихают догадки и домыслы. (из рус. источников) ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | обрастать домыслами | grow around (A great deal of speculation has grown around this property of melanin. VLZ_58) |
| Makarov. | опровергать домыслы | expose factoids |
| Makarov. | опровергать домыслы | explode factoids |
| book., lit. | основанный на догадках, домыслах | must-have-been |
| gen. | основанный на домыслах | thumbsucker |
| gen. | основанный на домыслах обзор событий | thumbsucker |
| gen. | отличать факт от домысла | tell a fact from a factoid (Taras) |
| gen. | по этому вопросу можно лишь строить домыслы | a matter of conjecture (is ~ • Whether this type of attack is a calculated act by an intelligent and malign entity or a programmed reaction from an unmanned probe type of craft is a matter of conjecture, as no entities were seen in either of the previous cases. (Janet & Colin Bord, "Unexplained Mysteries of The 20th Century") ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | предмет домыслов | subject of speculation (Ivan Pisarev) |
| gen. | пустой домысел | vapoury conjecture |
| gen. | пустой домысел | vaporific conjecture |
| gen. | пустой домысел | vaporous conjecture |
| gen. | человек, высказывающий свои домыслы о чем-то, в чём он не разбирается | barrack-room lawyer (Mongolian_spy) |
| polit. | чистый домысел | pure speculation (ssn) |
| inf. | это только твой домысел | you're just guessing (алешаBG) |