All shot in the dark synonyms

noun shot in the dark

• guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
• down on — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
• exposedness — The state or quality of being exposed.
• crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
• 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.
• apriorism — the philosophical doctrine that there may be genuine knowledge independent of experience
• apriority — the quality or fact of being a priori
• assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
• liableness — Quality of being liable; liability.
• conjecture — A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
• lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
• gamble — to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
• lemmata — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.