Guesser

/ˈɡɛsər/

Meaning & Definition

noun

A person who makes a judgment or estimate without sufficient information; a person who guesses.

He is a poor guesser when it comes to estimating the distance.

A person who attempts to answer a question or solve a problem without being fully informed.

In the trivia game, she turned out to be the best guesser among us.

Someone who relies on intuition rather than knowledge or evidence.

As a guesser, he often relied on hunches to make business decisions.

Derived from the word 'guess', which comes from Middle English 'gessen', meaning to judge or to think.

guesswork

the process or practice of making guesses or estimates.

take a guess

to make an effort to answer without knowing the exact information.

shot in the dark

a wild guess, or a guess made without knowing the facts.

guess

to estimate or conclude something without sufficient information.

estimation

the process of forming an idea of the amount, number, or value of something.

wild guess

He took a wild guess on the math test and got a few answers right.

educated guess

She made an educated guess based on her knowledge of the topic.