Guess

Quick meaning: Guess is a verb meaning To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

You guessed the right answer!

You will never guess what happened next.

He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.

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

Word Forms

• guesses
• guessing
• guessed
• guessest
• guessedst
• guesseth

Synonyms for guess

Depending on context, synonyms include assume, conjecture, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, surmise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include guesswork, conjecture, surmise, supposition, suppose, infer.

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