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Guess   /gɛs/   Listen
Guess

verb
(past & past part. guessed; pres. part. guessing)
1.
Expect, believe, or suppose.  Synonyms: imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, think.  "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"
2.
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation.  Synonyms: hazard, pretend, venture.  "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
3.
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time).  Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, judge.
4.
Guess correctly; solve by guessing.  Synonym: infer.
noun
1.
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.  Synonyms: conjecture, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise.
2.
An estimate based on little or no information.  Synonyms: dead reckoning, guessing, guesswork, shot.



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"Guess" Quotes from Famous Books



... brain, it began to sigh out the Agnus Dei of Mozart's twelfth mass upon the air of the still church, which lay swept and garnished for the Sunday.—How could it be? I know now; and I guessed then; and my guess was right; and my reader must be content to guess too. I took no step to verify my conjecture, for I felt that I was upon my honour, but sat in one of the pews and listened, till the old organ sobbed itself into ...
— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald
... Anhault to make a horse trade. I'd like to see the world, go to London and Paris. I've wanted to go to France ever since that queer Frenchman was here—remember?—and told us those jolly tales about the Revolution and the great Napoleon. We were hardly more than seven or eight then, I guess." ...
— The Inn at the Red Oak • Latta Griswold
... wall like our own. How far off it might be we could only guess. When Nature's lightning hits a man fair and square, it splits his yardstick. On recovering from this stroke, mathematicians have ascertained the width of the Valley to vary between half a mile and five miles. Where we stood the width is ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various
... "Guess the Germans are handing us the wrong bill of fare this morning. Coffee and iron rations," said Sergeant Coe as he bent over and took a look into the tin basin on the Flemish stove in the kitchen of one of ...
— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie
... take lessons right away then," replied Lester genially. "I'll do my best to keep you company. I'm not as light on my feet as I was once, but I guess ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser


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