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)

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 (zh), 猜测 (zh) (cāicè), 推測 (zh), 推测 (zh) (tuīcè)
Dutch: giswerk (nl) n
Finnish: arvailu (fi)
French: extrapolation (fr) f

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

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