guesswork als zelfstandig naamwoord: - 1
guesswork
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 guesswork
An estimate based on little or no information.
synoniemen: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot.
Roget 514:
supposition,
assumption,
assumed position,
postulation,
condition,
presupposition,
hypothesis,
blue sky hypothesis,
postulate,
postulatum [Lat.],
theory;
thesis,
theorem;
data;
proposition,
position;
proposal
etc.
(plan)
626;
presumption
etc.
(belief)
484;
divination.
conjecture;
guess,
guesswork,
speculation;
rough guess,
shot,
shot in the dark [Coll.];
conjecturality†;
surmise,
suspicion,
sneaking suspicion;
estimate,
approximation
(nearness)
197.
inkling,
suggestion,
hint,
intimation,
notion,
impression;
bare supposition,
vague supposition,
loose supposition,
loose suggestion.
association of ideas,
(analogy)
514.1;
metonym [Gramm.],
metonymy [Gramm.],
simile
(metaphor)
521.
conceit,
idea,
thought;
original idea,
invention
(imagination)
515.
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Nederlands: gissing, giswerk, gegist bestek, nattevingerwerk
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: actuarial prediction, apocalypse, assumption, axiom, conjecture, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, hypothesis, improbability, inference, omen, postulate, postulation, postulatum, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, premise, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, presumption, presupposal, presupposition, probability, prognosis, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, proposition, prospectus, set of postulates, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, supposal, supposing, supposition, surmise, thesis, vaticination, working hypothesis ... meer laten zien.
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