guesswork
/ˈɡɛswəːk
/noun [mass noun]
The process or results of guessing: answering this question will involve you in a certain amount of guesswork...
- So there's a certain amount of guesswork or predicting that goes into it.
- We don't, but we cannot go to war on guesswork, hypothesis and speculation.
- While there is a fair bit of guesswork and assumption involved, parties reckon they can narrow down who voted for them and who didn't.
Synonyms
guessing, conjecture, surmise, supposition, assumption, presumption, suspicion, speculation, hypothesizing, theorizing, prediction, expectation;
approximations, rough calculations;
feelings, hunches
informal guesstimates
North American informal ballpark figures
- on the stocks
- on the streets
- on the strength of
- on the stroke of ——
- on the table
- on the telephone
- on the tiles
- on the tip of one's tongue
- on the town
- on the trot
- on the turn
- on the turps
- on the up and up
- on the upgrade
- on the wallaby (track)
- on the wane
- on the whole
- on the wing
- on the wrong side of
- on the —— side
- on thin ice
- on this (or that) account
- (on) this side of the grave
- ontic
- ontical