guesswork

guesswork
Synonyms and related words:
actuarial prediction, apocalypse, assumption, axiom, conjecture, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, hypothesis, improbability, inference, omen, postulate, postulation, postulatum, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, premise, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, presumption, presupposal, presupposition, probability, prognosis, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, proposition, prospectus, set of postulates, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, supposal, supposing, supposition, surmise, thesis, vaticination, working hypothesis

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  • Guesswork — Guess work , n. Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • guesswork — index conjecture, estimate (idea), estimation (calculation), inference, speculation (conjecture) …   Law dictionary

  • guesswork — also guess work, 1725, from GUESS (Cf. guess) + WORK (Cf. work) …   Etymology dictionary

  • guesswork — ► NOUN ▪ the process or results of guessing …   English terms dictionary

  • guesswork — [ges′wʉrk΄] n. 1. the act of guessing 2. a judgment, result, etc. arrived at by guessing …   English World dictionary

  • guesswork — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ pure ▪ educated ▪ Their results owe more to educated guesswork than to actual knowledge. VERB + GUESSWORK ▪ be based on ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • guesswork — [[t]ge̱swɜː(r)k[/t]] N UNCOUNT Guesswork is the process of trying to guess or estimate something without knowing all the facts or information. The question of who planted the bomb remains a matter of guesswork …   English dictionary

  • guesswork — guess|work [ˈgeswə:k US wə:rk] n [U] the method of trying to find the answer to something by guessing ▪ There s a lot of guesswork in these calculations …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • guesswork — guess|work [ ges,wɜrk ] noun uncount the process of trying to find the answer to something by guessing, or the answer found by using this method: a theory based on pure guesswork …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • guesswork — noun (U) the method of trying to find the answer to something by guessing: In this study, scientific methods seem to have been replaced by guesswork …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • guesswork — noun the educated guesswork we rely on in our research Syn: guessing, conjecture, surmise, supposition, assumptions, presumptions, speculation, hypothesizing, theorizing, prediction; approximations, rough calculations; hunches; informal… …   Thesaurus of popular words

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