to guesstimate
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6.5
- verb
- /ˈɡɛs.tɪ.meɪt/
- Informal
:
estimar
- When planning the project, we had to guesstimate the total costs without all the details.
She was always quite guarded in, in kind of, you know, guesstimating or, or hypothesising.
- She was always quite guarded in, in kind of, you know, guesstimating or, or hypothesising.
- I like to just guesstimate and pour a little bit in and that looks like a teaspoon.
Examples
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So I'm going to try and guesstimate that with my eyeball and get close.
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I guesstimate that I have about 50 pounds of copper wire, 100 pounds of chain-link fence and two manhole covers.
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I'd guesstimate it at 20% or less.
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Can you guesstimate the area of contamination?
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In France, where tensions run high over immigration, people guesstimate that immigrants make up 24% of the population.
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People can look at the dice and, and guesstimate or they can look at their data and figure out what the rework rates are.
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I guesstimate that some 80% of the people who live here are either government apparatchiks or work for Beltway Bandits.
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I'm not sure how many Canadian actuaries are in the CAS, but we can guesstimate by looking at the number of students sitting for exams 6U.
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Can you guesstimate the area of contamination based on the available data?
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To avoid overestimating, I usually guesstimate how long the presentation will take based on previous experiences.
Synonyms
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1.0
To form an opinion or estimate without enough information
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8.5
To use known information to guess what will be true in new situations
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4.3
To make a rough guess about a number or amount
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7.6
To form an opinion without enough proof
To give a rough guess about a number or amount when you have little information
How Accurate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The verb guesstimate uses the same mix of guess ('a quick idea') and estimate ('a number based on some facts'), so to guesstimate is to give a rough number when you do not have all the information.