| Main Entry: | shot in the dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wild guess or try |
Synonyms: |
bet, chance, fall of the cards, flip of the coin, gamble, guess, leap in the dark, long shot, luck of the draw, matter of chance, outside chance, risk, risky thing, speculation, throw of the dice, toss of the dice, turn of the wheel, wild guess |
| Main Entry: | assumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking something for granted; something expected |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, accepting, assuming, belief, conjecture, expectation, fancy, guess, hunch, hypothesis, inference, posit, postulate, postulation, premise, presumption, presupposition, shot in the dark, shot*, sneaking suspicion, stab, supposal, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorization, theory |
Antonyms: |
doubt, unexpected |
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | game of chance; money gambled |
Synonyms: |
action, ante, betting, chance, down on, hazard, long shot, lot, lottery, odds, odds on, parlay, play, pledge, plunge, pot, raffle, random shot, risk, shot, shot in the dark, speculation, stake, sweepstakes, uncertainty, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | conjecture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speculation, assumption |
Synonyms: |
conclusion, fancy, guess, guesstimate, guesswork, hunch, hypothesis, inference, notion, opinion, perhaps, presumption, shot in the dark, sneaking suspicion, stab in the dark, supposition, surmise, theorizing, theory |
Antonyms: |
fact, proof, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | crapshoot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | big chance |
Synonyms: |
iffy proposition, risk, risky business, shot in the dark, spin of the roulette wheel |
| Main Entry: | gamble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance, speculation |
Synonyms: |
action, bet, fling, leap*, long shot, lottery, outside chance, raffle, risk, shot in the dark, spec, stab*, throw of the dice, toss up, uncertainty, venture, wager |
| Notes: | a gamble (noun) is a risky act, venture, bet, or wager - to gamble (verb) is to take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; a gambol (noun) a skipping or leaping about in frolic - to gambol (verb) is to dance and skip about in play or to frolic |
Antonyms: |
design, guard, insurance, plan, protection, safeguard |
| Main Entry: | guess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, speculation |
Synonyms: |
assumption, ballpark figure, conclusion, conjecture, deduction, divination, estimate, fancy, feeling, guesstimate, guesswork, hunch, hypothesis, induction, inference, judgment, notion, opinion, postulate, postulation, prediction, presumption, presupposition, reckoning, shot in the dark, shot*, sneaking suspicion, stab*, supposal, supposition, surmisal, surmise, suspicion, theory, thesis, view |
Antonyms: |
calculation, measurement |
| Main Entry: | hypothesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory |
Synonyms: |
antecedent, apriority, assignment, assumption, attribution, axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data, deduction, demonstration, derivation, explanation, foundation, ground, guess, inference, interpretation, layout, lemma, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, presupposition, principle, proposal, proposition, rationale, reason, scheme, shot in the dark, speculation, starting point, suggestion, supposition, surmise, system, tentative law, term, theorem, thesis |
Antonyms: |
calcualtion, measurement, proof, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | presumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, hypothesis |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apriorism, assumption, basis, chance, conjecture, grounds, guess, likelihood, opinion, plausibility, posit, postulate, postulation, premise, presupposition, probability, reason, shot, shot in the dark, sneaking suspicion, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, thesis |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | risk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance taken |
Synonyms: |
accident, contingency, danger, exposedness, exposure, flyer, fortuity, fortune, gamble, hazard, header, jeopardy, liability, liableness, luck, openness, opportunity, peril, plunge, possibility, prospect, shot in the dark, speculation, stab*, uncertainty, venture, wager |
Antonyms: |
certainty, safety, sureness, surety |