guess - Definition | Dictionary definition of guess

Definition of guess

expect, believe, or suppose

"I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

"I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise
make a prediction about; tell in advance; read
interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; outguess, second-guess
attempt to anticipate or predict; augur
predict from an omen; bet, wager
maintain with or as if with a bet; calculate, forecast
predict in advance; prophesy, vaticinate
predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration; surmise, suspect
imagine to be the case or true or probable

Type of:: speculate
talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion

judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; quantise, quantize
approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values; misgauge
gauge something incorrectly or improperly; place, put, set
estimate; give
estimate the duration or outcome of something; lowball, underestimate
make a deliberately low estimate; assess
estimate the value of (property) for taxation; make
calculate as being; count, reckon
take account of; truncate
approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; guesstimate
estimate based on a calculation

Type of:: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out
make a mathematical calculation or computation

guess correctly; solve by guessing

"He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"

Type of:: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work, work out
find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

Synonyms:: conjecture, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise

Type of:: opinion, view
a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof

an estimate based on little or no information