educated guessnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌed.jʊ.keɪ.tɪd ˈɡes/us/ˌed.jʊ.keɪ.t̬ɪd ˈɡes/C2 a guess that is made using judgment and a particular level of knowledge and is therefore more likely to be correct
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Guesses and assumptions
- a shot in the dark idiom
- approximation
- assumption
- ballpark
- bet
- conjecture
- estimate
- estimation
- guess
- guesstimate
- preception
- preconception
- presumption
- presupposition
- proposition
- propositional
- shot
- supposition
- surmise
- underestimate
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Examples from literature
- Educated guesses were made in a few cases.