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guesstimate

guess·ti·mate
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    • [verb ges-tuh-meyt; noun ges-tuh-mit, -meyt]
    • /verb ˈgɛs təˌmeɪt; noun ˈgɛs tə mɪt, -ˌmeɪt/
    • /ˈɡes.tə.mət/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [verb ges-tuh-meyt; noun ges-tuh-mit, -meyt]
    • /verb ˈgɛs təˌmeɪt; noun ˈgɛs tə mɪt, -ˌmeɪt/

Definitions of guesstimate word

  • verb with object guesstimate to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics. 1
  • noun guesstimate an estimate arrived at by guesswork. 1
  • noun guesstimate An estimate based on a mixture of guesswork and calculation. 1
  • noun guesstimate educated guess 1
  • transitive verb guesstimate make an educated guess 1
  • countable noun guesstimate A guesstimate is an approximate calculation which is based mainly or entirely on guessing. 0
See all 12 definitions of guesstimate

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Origin of guesstimate

First appearance:

before 1935
One of the 8% newest English words
1935-40, Americanism; blend of guess and estimate

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Parts of speech for Guesstimate

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Guesstimate

guesstimate popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 47% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for guesstimate

verb guesstimate

  • audit — When an accountant audits an organization's accounts, he or she examines the accounts officially in order to make sure that they have been done correctly.
  • calculate — If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
  • inspect — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
  • check out — When you check out of a hotel or clinic where you have been staying, or if someone checks you out, you pay the bill and leave.
  • assess — When you assess a person, thing, or situation, you consider them in order to make a judgment about them.

noun guesstimate

  • guesswork — work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.
  • hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
  • hunch — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
  • supposition — the act of supposing.
  • inference — the act or process of inferring.

adv guesstimate

  • nearly — all but; almost: nearly dead with cold.
  • basically — You use basically for emphasis when you are stating an opinion, or when you are making an important statement about something.
  • practically — in effect; virtually: It is practically useless to protest.
  • around — To be positioned around a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move around a place means to go along its edge, back to your starting point.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.

adverb guesstimate

  • essentially — Used to emphasize the basic, fundamental, or intrinsic nature of a person, thing, or situation.
All 247 Synonyms of guesstimate

Antonyms for guesstimate

verb guesstimate

  • ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
  • misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
  • disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
  • measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.

noun guesstimate

  • reality — the state or quality of being real.
  • measurement — the act of measuring.
  • proof — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
  • truth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
  • calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
All 42 Antonyms of guesstimate

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