Guess

/ɡɛs/ · verb

Meaning

To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate..

Definitions by Sense

1. To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
3. To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
4. (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
5. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
6. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

Example Sentences

We can only guess at what was going through her mind.

She guessed that the delivery driver must have got stuck in traffic.

He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.

You guessed the right answer!

You will never guess what happened next.

That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.

Not all together; better far, I guess, / That we do make our entrance several ways.

But in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.

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