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Definition of Guesswork
1. Noun. An estimate based on little or no information.
Generic synonyms: Approximation, Estimate, Estimation, Idea
Derivative terms: Guess, Guess, Guess
Definition of Guesswork
1. n. Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
Definition of Guesswork
1. Noun. An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Guesswork
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guesswork
Literary usage of Guesswork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Disease in Milk: The Remedy, Pasteurization; the Life Work of Nathan Straus by Nathan Straus, Lina Gutherz Straus (1917)
"But there stands out one FACT that is not guesswork. Of thousands of children
using Nathan Straus' pasteurized milk, every one has been free from the ..."
2. Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Cotton Exchanges by United States Bureau of Corporations, Herbert Knox Smith (1908)
"ATTEMPTS TO FORECAST FUTURE DIFFERENCES MERE guesswork.— The argument that the
members of the committee expected, or hoped, that differences established by ..."
3. Fallacies: A View of Logic from the Practical Side by Alfred Sidgwick (1884)
"... CHAPTER VL THE EMPLOYMENT OF guesswork: CONTINUED. I. THE OBJECTION 'A FACTOR
OVERLOOKED.' IT is difficult to find any one short name which shall fairly ..."
4. Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and how to Use it by Marion Rex Trabue, Frank Parker Stockbridge (1920)
"... MEASURE YOUR MIND CHAPTER I SCIENCE VERSUS guesswork THERE are two ways, and
only two, in which we can find out what a machine is capable of doing. ..."
5. The Symbol of the Apostles: A Vindication of the Apostolic Authorship of the by Alexander MacDonald (1903)
"X. HARNACK'S : "When, therefore, Harnack, guesswork. : .,, , . with his customary
assurance, tells us that, " There did actually exist in the East (in Asia ..."
6. Thomas Gibson's Market Letters for 1907 by Thomas Gibson (1908)
"This view will necessarily be founded largely on technical conditions and is
largely a matter of guesswork so far as the exact turning points are concerned, ..."
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