ALL meanings of guess
guess
G g - verb with object 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. 1
- verb with object guess to estimate or conjecture about correctly: to guess what a word means. 1
- verb with object guess to think, believe, or suppose: I guess I can get there in time. 1
- verb without object guess to form an estimate or conjecture (often followed by at or about): We guessed at the weight of the package. 1
- verb without object guess to estimate or conjecture correctly. 1
- noun guess 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. 1
- noun guess the act of forming such an opinion: to take a guess at someone's weight. 1
- idioms 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. 1
- noun guess Estimate or suppose (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct. 1
- intransitive verb guess estimate without knowledge 1
- transitive verb guess find by guessing 1
- transitive verb guess suppose 1
- verb guess If you guess something, you give an answer or provide an opinion which may not be true because you do not have definite knowledge about the matter concerned. 0
- verb guess If you guess that something is the case, you correctly form the opinion that it is the case, although you do not have definite knowledge about it. 0
- countable noun guess A guess is an attempt to give an answer or provide an opinion which may not be true because you do not have definite knowledge about the matter concerned. 0
- verb guess to form or express an uncertain estimate or conclusion (about something), based on insufficient information 0
- verb guess to arrive at a correct estimate of (something) by guessing 0
- verb guess to believe, think, or suppose (something) 0
- noun guess an estimate or conclusion arrived at by guessing 0
- noun guess the act of guessing 0
- verb transitive guess to form a judgment or estimate of (something) without actual knowledge or enough facts for certainty; conjecture; surmise 0
- verb transitive guess to judge correctly by doing this 0
- verb transitive guess to think or suppose 0
- noun guess a judgment or estimate formed by guessing; conjecture; surmise 0
- noun guess A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. 0
- verb guess To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. 0
- verb guess To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. 0
- verb guess (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). 0
- verb guess (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To hit upon or reproduce by memory. 0