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Guess

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Noun

1. conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

2. dead reckoning, guess, guessing, guesswork, shot

an estimate based on little or no information

Verb

3. guess, imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, think

expect, believe, or suppose

Example Sentences:
'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'

4. guess, hazard, pretend, venture

put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

Example Sentences:
'I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again'
'I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong'

5. approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge

judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)

Example Sentences:
'I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds'

6. guess, infer

guess correctly; solve by guessing

Example Sentences:
'He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Guess

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verb (when tr, may take a clause as object)
1. (when intr, often foll by at or about)
to form or express an uncertain estimate or conclusion (about something), based on insufficient information
guess what we're having for dinner
2. 
to arrive at a correct estimate of (something) by guessing
he guessed my age
3. informal, mainly US and Canadian
to believe, think, or suppose (something)
I guess I'll go now
4.  keep a person guessing
noun
5. 
an estimate or conclusion arrived at by guessing
a bad guess
6. 
the act of guessing
7.  anyone's guess

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Guess

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verb transitive, verb intransitive
1. 
to form a judgment or estimate of (something) without actual knowledge or enough facts for certainty; conjecture; surmise
2. 
to judge correctly by doing this
3. 
to think or suppose
I guess I can do it
noun
4. 
the act of guessing
5. 
a judgment or estimate formed by guessing; conjecture; surmise

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Guess

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v. guessed, guess·ing, guess·es
v.tr.
1.
a. To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.
b. To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information.
2. To form a correct estimate or conjecture of: guessed the answer.
3. To suppose; think: I guess he was wrong.
v.intr.
1. To make an estimate or conjecture: We could only guess at her motives.
2. To estimate or conjecture correctly.
n.
1. An act or instance of guessing.
2. A conjecture arrived at by guessing.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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