Time consuming guesswork

Synonyms for "time consuming guesswork" (17 found)

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Strong matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
inefficientinefficient methodlaboriouslaborious estimationprolonged assessment

Related words (8)

Noun(8 words)
protractedspeculatespeculationspeculativetedioustedious calculationunrigorous approachwasteful

Related word relations

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More general

7 entries
cognitive processdecision making qualityinformation processingprocess attributeprocess qualityreasoningtask characteristic

More specific

14 entries
ballpark figureeducated guessguess-based evaluationheuristic guessheuristic guessingmanual estimationprobing guessworkrough calculationrough estimaterough estimationrule of thumbspeculative estimationtrial and errorunstructured speculation

Collocations

14 entries
educated guessguesswork involvedheuristic methodlaborious estimationprolonged assessmentrough estimatespeculative estimationtime consumingtime consuming analysistime consuming methodtime consuming proceduretime consuming processtime consuming projecttime consuming task

Inflections

2 entries
more time consumingmost time consuming

Derivations

3 entries
guessworktime consumingtime consumption