guesswork n : an estimate based on little or no information [syn: guess, guessing, shot, dead reckoning]

English

Noun

1. An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

Related terms

• guestimate
• dead reckoning

Translations

The word guess commonly refers to a conjecture or estimation. It may also refer to the following:

• Guess (clothing), an American name-brand clothing line .
• Guess (variety show), a Taiwanese variety show.
• The GUESS Protocol of Gnutella
• The GUESS Graph Exploration System
• The General Usage Expert System Shell

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