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guesswork

guesswork noun: an estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.

Noun

guesswork (countable and uncountable, plural guessworks)

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

guesswork meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

guesswork in Tamil

கருதற்பணி

guesswork in Malayalam

conjecture, guessing, surmise
ഊഹം, ഊഹിക്കൽ, ഊഹപ്രവൃത്തി, ഊഹത്തെമാത്രം ആസ്പദമാക്കിയ നിഗമനം, അഭ്യൂഹം, അഭ്യൂഹം നടത്തൽ

Examples of guesswork in a sentence

  • There's a lot of guesswork involved.
  • And his hope is to take the guesswork out of living right with God.
  • We've gathered three weeks' worth of seagan menus to take the guesswork out of eating well.

All 11 example sentences with guesswork

Synonyms of guesswork

Forms of guesswork

pluralguessworks
alternative formguess-work

Origin of guesswork

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

Questions about guesswork

What does guesswork mean?
Guesswork means an estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.
What is guesswork in Tamil?
Guesswork in Tamil is கருதற்பணி. See Guesswork meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is guesswork?
Guesswork is a noun.
What is the plural of guesswork?
The plural of guesswork is guessworks.

Words near guesswork in the dictionary

  1. guesstimation
  2. guesstimations
  3. guesstimative
  4. guesstimator
  5. guesstimators
  6. guesswork
  7. guessworker
  8. guessworkers
  9. guessworks
  10. guessèd
  11. guest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: guesswork (page history and authors); guesswork (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guesswork (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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