formal : an opinion or idea formed without proof or sufficient evidence : guess [count] ▪ The biography includes conjectures about the writer's earliest ambitions. ▪ a conjecture about the extent of the injury [noncount] ▪ Your plan is based on (nothing more than) conjecture. ▪ Most of the book is conjecture, not fact. ▪ The criminal's motive remains a matter of conjecture. [=people can only guess about the criminal's motive; no one knows the criminal's motive]





