Dictionary Definition
guess
Noun
1 a message expressing an opinion based on
incomplete evidence [syn: conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis]
Verb
1 expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she
earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her
in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I
guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon]
2 put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible
refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise
again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong" [syn: venture, pretend, hazard]
3 judge tentatively or form an estimate of
(quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three
pounds" [syn: estimate,
gauge, approximate, judge]
4 guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed
the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize" [syn:
infer]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- gĕs, /ges/, /ges/
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- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
- A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
Synonyms
Translations
prediction about the outcome of something
Verb
- To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
- (mainly US) to suppose (introducing a
proposition of uncertain plausibility)
- That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could look online for a sample song.
Synonyms
Translations
to reach an unqualified conclusion
to suppose
- Romanian: bănui
Related terms
Extensive Definition
The word guess commonly refers to a conjecture or estimation. It may also refer
to the following:
- Guess (clothing), an American name-brand clothing line .
- Guess (variety show), a Taiwanese variety show.
- The GUESS Protocol of Gnutella
- The GUESS Graph Exploration System
- The General Usage Expert System Shell
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
account as, answer, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, assumption, be afraid,
believe, blind bargain,
blind guess, bold conjecture, borderline case, bottom, call, cast a horoscope, cast a
nativity, chance,
class, clear up, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, contingency, crack, daresay, debug, decipher, decode, deduce, deem, disentangle, divine, do, dope, dope out, double contingency,
dowse for water, esteem,
estimate, evaluate, expect, explain, fancy, fathom, feel, feeling, figure, figure out, find out,
find the answer, find the solution, forebode, forecast, foresee, foretell, form an estimate,
fortune-tell, gamble,
gauge, get, get right, give a guess, give
an appreciation, guess right, guesstimate, guesswork, hariolate, have a hunch, have
an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have it, have the
idea, hazard a conjecture, hit it, hold, hold as, hunch, hypothesis, hypothesize, imagine, interpret, judge, judgement, look upon as,
maintain, make a
prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make an estimation,
make out, mark, measure, open question, open the
lock, opine, perhaps, piece of guesswork,
plumb, postulate, predict, prefigure, presage, presume, pretend, prize, prognosticate, prophesy, psych, psych out, puzzle out,
question, rank, rate, ravel, ravel out, read palms, read
tea leaves, read the future, reason, reckon, regard, resolve, riddle, risk assuming, rough
guess, set down as, shot,
sight-unseen transaction, solve, soothsay, sort out, speculate, speculation, stab, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, suspicion, take, take for, take it, tell
fortunes, tell the future, tentatively suggest, theory, think, toss-up, touch and go,
trow, undecided issue,
undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unverified supposition,
unweave, valuate, value, vaticinate, venture a guess,
view as, wager, ween, wild guess, work, work out