Definition of guesses Guesses
/gɛˈsʌz/ - [gesuz] -
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Wiktionary 
- guesses (Noun)
Plural of guess.
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| guess - a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | ||
| conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis | ||
| opinion, view the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) | ||
| guess - an estimate based on little or no information | ||
| guesswork, guessing, shot, dead reckoning | ||
| approximation, estimation, estimate, idea the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue | ||
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| guess - 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" | ||
| venture, pretend, hazard | ||
| speculate to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" | ||
| forebode, predict, prognosticate, foretell, promise, anticipate, call make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" | ||
| surmise, suspect infer from incomplete evidence | ||
| guess - guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize" | ||
| infer | ||
| figure out, puzzle out, solve, lick, work out, work find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" | ||
| tell discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy" | ||
| guess - judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" | ||
| estimate, gauge, approximate, judge | ||
| compute, cipher, cypher, figure, calculate, reckon, work out understand; "He didn't figure her" | ||
| overrate, overestimate make too high an estimate of; "He overestimated his own powers" | ||
| lowball, underestimate make a deliberately low estimate; "The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed" | ||
| quantise, quantize apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor; "Quantize gravity" | ||
| misgauge gauge something incorrectly or improperly | ||
| put, place, set attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" | ||
| give proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister" | ||
| lowball, underestimate make a deliberately low estimate; "The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed" | ||
| assess estimate the value of (property) for taxation; "Our house hasn't been assessed in years" | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| reckon, count take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" | ||
| truncate make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" | ||
| guesstimate estimate based on a calculation | ||
| guess - 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" | ||
| think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon | ||
| anticipate, expect be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; "This composition anticipates Impressionism" | ||
| suspect imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" | ||
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Wiktionary
- guess (Noun)
A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. - guess (Verb)
To reach a partly or totally unqualified conclusion. - guess (Verb)
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. - guess (Verb)
To suppose introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- guess (v. t.)
To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture. - guess (v. t.)
To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive. - guess (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. - guess (v. t.)
To hit upon or reproduce by memory. - guess (v. t.)
To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause. - guess (v. i.)
To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc. - guess (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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To have as opinion, belief, or idea. -
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To succeed to know, or discover, by way of surmises. -
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A prediction made without factual evidence. -
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To suppose with contestable premises.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ges, v.t. to form an opinion on uncertain knowledge: to conjecture, to think.—v.i. to judge on uncertain knowledge: to conjecture rightly.—n. judgment or opinion without sufficient evidence or grounds.—adj. Guess′able, that may be guessed.—n. Guess′er, one who guesses or conjectures.—adv. Guess′ingly, by way of conjecture.—n. Guess′work, work done by guess: random action. [M. E. gessen; cog. with Dut. gissen; Dan. gisse, Ice. giska, for gitska—geta, to get, think, A.S. gitan, whence Eng. get. See Forget.]
