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The Meaning of guess
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(v. t.) To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
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(v. t.) To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
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(v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
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(v. t.) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
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(v. t.) To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.
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(v. i.) To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.
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(n.) An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.
Synonyms
possibility
,
conjecture
,
surmise
,
guesswork
,
theory
,
meditation
,
venture
,
supposition
,
dead reckoning
,
guessing
,
surmisal
,
supposal
,
assumption
,
hypothesis
,
speculation
,
shot
,
stab
,
injection
,
scene
,
dig
,
stroke
,
barb
,
gibe
,
shaft
,
slam
,
crack
,
pellet
,
nip
,
shooter
,
shooting
,
blastoff
,
snap
,
snapshot
,
jibe
,
approximate
,
call back
,
cerebrate
,
bet
,
speak out
,
suppose
,
look
,
reckon
,
hypothesise
,
work out
,
mean
,
view
,
retrieve
,
figure
,
speculate
,
pretend
,
gauge
,
envisage
,
call up
,
infer
,
judge
,
see
,
say
,
theorize
,
depend
,
think
,
calculate
,
cypher
,
intend
,
hypothesize
,
opine
,
recollect
,
speak up
,
hazard
,
imagine
,
compute
,
theorise
,
sound off
,
regard
,
animadvert
,
presuppose
,
recall
,
believe
,
count
,
hypothecate
,
ideate
,
estimate
,
consider
,
remember
,
cogitate
,
forecast
,
cipher
,
conceive
,
conceive of
,
count on
,
run a risk
,
adventure
,
dissemble
,
make believe
,
gamble
,
sham
,
chance
,
embark
,
affect
,
jeopardize
,
stake
,
act
,
take chances
,
profess
,
take a chance
,
risk
,
make
,
feign
,
pass judgment
,
try
,
pronounce
,
label
,
evaluate
,
come close
,
adjudicate
,
deduct
,
derive
,
generalise
,
extrapolate
,
generalize
,
understand
,
deduce
,
scheme
,
system
,
expect
,
anticipate
Antonyms
certainty
,
demonstration
,
discovery
,
evidence
,
fact
,
proof
Rhymes
abs
,
abscess
,
abts
,
access
,
acquiesce
,
address
,
adss
,
aggress
,
assess
,
attests
,
bess
,
besse
,
bless
,
bress
,
bresse
,
caress
,
ccs
,
ches
,
chess
,
cmos
,
coalesce
,
compress
,
confess
,
contests
,
convalesce
,
cress
,
depress
,
digests
,
digress
,
dispossess
,
distress
,
dress
,
egress
,
ellesse
,
ess
,
esse
,
etess
,
excess
,
express
,
fess
,
finesse
,
fluoresce
,
fress
,
gess
,
gless
,
gress
,
hces
,
headdress
,
hess
,
hesse
,
impress
,
ines
,
inverness
,
jess
,
kess
,
kless
,
kness
,
kress
,
kresse
,
kubes
,
largesse
,
lcs
,
les
,
less
,
letterpress
,
ls
,
mess
,
ness
,
nevertheless
,
noblesse
,
nonetheless
,
oas
,
obsess
,
oppress
,
outguess
,
overdress
,
pesce
,
pless
,
possess
,
press
,
presse
,
process
,
profess
,
progress
,
protests
,
ques
,
reassess
,
recess
,
redress
,
refenes
,
regress
,
reinvests
,
repossess
,
repress
,
requests
,
ress
,
s
,
simplesse
,
stds
,
stress
,
success
,
suppress
,
tcas
,
tess
,
transgress
,
tress
,
ts
,
undress
,
unless
,
uss
,
vess
,
watercress
,
wes
,
wess
,
ws
,
yes