guess
to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
to estimate or conjecture about correctly: to guess what a word means.
to think, believe, or suppose: I guess I can get there in time.
to form an estimate or conjecture (often followed by at or about): We guessed at the weight of the package.
to estimate or conjecture correctly.
an opinion that one reaches or to which one commits oneself on the basis of probability alone or in the absence of any evidence whatever.
the act of forming such an opinion: to take a guess at someone's weight.
Idioms about guess
by guess and by gosh, Northern U.S. using a combination of guesswork and reliance on luck; hit or miss.: Also by guess and by golly.
Origin of guess
1synonym study For guess
Other words for guess
Opposites for guess
Other words from guess
- guess·a·ble, adjective
- guesser, noun
- guess·ing·ly, adverb
- pre·guess, noun, verb
- un·guess·a·ble, adjective
- un·guessed, adjective
Words that may be confused with guess
- guessed , guest
Words Nearby guess
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How to use guess in a sentence
My guess is that a lot of people who have previously had SARS-CoV-2 are probably still protected in part, or not as protected.
How coronavirus variants may drive reinfection and shape vaccination efforts | Erin Garcia de Jesus | February 5, 2021 | Science NewsYou had to assume that the mystery word was selected randomly from this word list, which was also the list your guesses had to be chosen from.
Right now, researchers say, their best guess is that vaccines will reduce transmission but may not prevent it entirely.
So you got the vaccine. Can you still infect people? Pfizer is trying to find out. | Stephanie Arnett | February 2, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewAfter each of your guesses, you are told which letters of your guess are also in the mystery word and whether any of the letters are in the correct position.
With these competing priorities, some solvers reasoned that the answer should be right in the middle, with a guess of 50.
Haha, what a sad thing to be great at, but yeah, I guess I am.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire | William O’Connor | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd then I got on a plane, and guess what was playing: I Never Sang for My Father.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAs Randy wrote, “I guess this speaks to the church not really having a place for gay people so getting married is still implicit.”
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism | Samantha Allen | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI guess we know how Bacchus kept his title as the god of wine and intoxication.
“I guess it was their first incident where they lose a plane,” said Dobersberger, the travel agent.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370 | Lennox Samuels | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
It would be a modest guess that Accadian culture implied a growth of at least ten thousand years.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordSince that he has made his almanacs without weatherwise sayings, leaving every man to guess for himself.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousSquinty started to go back the way he had come, but I guess you can imagine what happened.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard Barnum"I guess that is straight enough for Guitar to believe, instead of that upstart lieutenant," said Harry.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. Dunn
British Dictionary definitions for guess
/ (ɡɛs) /
(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
to arrive at a correct estimate of (something) by guessing: he guessed my age
informal, mainly US and Canadian to believe, think, or suppose (something): I guess I'll go now
keep a person guessing to let a person remain in a state of uncertainty
an estimate or conclusion arrived at by guessing: a bad guess
the act of guessing
anyone's guess something difficult to predict
Origin of guess
1Derived forms of guess
- guessable, adjective
- guesser, noun
- guessingly, adverb
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with guess
see anyone's guess; educated guess; have another guess coming; your guess is as good as mine.
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