guesswork
nounEtymology From guess + work. Compare Dutch giswerk (“guesswork”).
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
- Related terms
- guesstimate, dead reckoning