guess

noun

A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

verb

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

(colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".

(chiefly US) to suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

(obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

Synonyms for guess

supposev surmisev guessworkn conjecturen thinkv suppositionn reckonv speculationn imaginev presumev daresayadj estimaten hypothesisn speculatev guesstimaten hypothesizev opinev assumev

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