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guesswork

Pronunciation:  'ges`wurk

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  an estimate based on little or no information
 
 Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot
 
 See Also: approximation, estimate, estimation, idea

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Guess"work`\, n.
Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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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