guess

Plural: guesses

Noun

• a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
• an estimate based on little or no information
• A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

Verb

Verb Forms: guessed, guessing, guesses

• To form an opinion or estimate without complete information.
• expect, believe, or suppose
  • "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
  • "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"
• judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
• guess correctly; solve by guessing
  • "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"
• To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
• To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• to suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
• To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

Examples

• "I guess I'll go to bed."
• "I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."
• He had to GUESS if his opponent knew the obscure word he just played was valid.
• He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
• If you don't know the answer, take a guess.
• She guessed that the delivery driver must have got stuck in traffic.
• That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
• We can only guess at what was going through her mind.
• You guessed the right answer!
• You will never guess what happened next.

Synonyms

approximate, conjecture, dead reckoning, estimate, gauge, guessing, guesswork, hazard, hypothesis, imagine, infer, judge, opine, pretend, reckon, shot, speculation, suppose, supposition, surmisal, surmise, think, venture, assume, hypothesize, prediction, speculate, take a stab

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