Guesswork

Synonyms for "guesswork" (76 found)

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Closest matches (16)

Adjective(1 words)
armchair guesswork
Noun(5 words)

Strong matches (22)

Related words (38)

Adjective(4 words)
random guessworkrough guessworkunnecessary guessworkunstructured guessing
Noun(8 words)
shotspeculatingspeculationspeculative thinkingsuppositionsurmisingtime consuming guessworkunstructured guessing process

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

8 entries
approximationcognitive processestimateestimationideamental activityproblem solvinguncertainty

More specific

4 entries
armchair guessworkeducated guessrough guesswild guess

Collocations

5 entries
heavy guessworkpure guessworkrough guessworktime consuming guessworkunnecessary guesswork

Inflections

1 entries

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I used guesswork for all my answers on this test and they were all correct.

Source: tatoeba (10566762)

Tom's translations are more guesswork than translation.

Source: tatoeba (11115260)

He navigates through guesswork.

Source: tatoeba (11901457)

Fighting the flu usually consists of using predictive research to create a vaccine that fights the strains of the disease most likely to show up. But scientists around the world are closing in on a universal vaccine that takes the guesswork out of the fight.

Source: tatoeba (12277075)

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