guesswork

See also: guess-work

English

Alternative forms

• guess-work

Etymology

From guess +‎ work. Compare Dutch giswerk (“guesswork”).

Noun

guesswork (countable and uncountable, plural guessworks)

1. An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.
   • 1911, William Anthony Granville, Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus:

     By a careful study of the figure we might suspect that when the rectangle becomes a square its area would be the greatest, but this would at best be mere guesswork. A better way would evidently be to plot the graph of the function (1) and note its behavior.

Related terms

• guesstimate

Translations

estimate, judgment or opinion

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猜測／猜测 (zh) (cāicè), 猜测 (zh) (cāicè), 推測／推测 (zh) (tuīcè), 推测 (zh) (tuīcè)

• Dutch: giswerk (nl) n
• Finnish: arvailu (fi)
• French: extrapolation (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Mutmaßung (de) f, Vermutung (de), Raterei f, Rätselraten n
• Italian: supposizione (it) f
• Japanese: 当て推量 (ja) (atezuiryou)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: adivinanza (es) f, conjeturas (es) f pl, suposiciones (es) f pl
• Swedish: gissning (sv)

See also

• dead reckoning