Guess

Noun

 * 1) A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

Verb

 * 1) To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
 * 2) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
 * He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
 * 1) (mainly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
 * That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could look online for a sample song.
 * That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could look online for a sample song.

Adjectives for Guess
admirable; happy; accepted; shrewd; instinctive; various (pi); ridiculous; worst; elaborate; wild.

Verbs for Guess
attempt—; base—on; calculate—; chance— estimate—; form—; hazard—; measure— necessitate—; vary—; venture—; weigh— withdraw—; —amazes; —coincides; —deceives; —rescues.

Adverbs for Guess
shrewdly; instinctively; profoundly; cleverly; skillfully;  miraculously;  intuitively; luckily; unerringly.

Synonyms for Guess

 * (noun) estimate, hypothesis, prediction
 * (verb) hypothesize, take a stab, believe, surmise, reckon, assume, imagine, suppose, conjecture, opine, fancy.

Antonyms for Guess
calculate, measure, know, ascertain.

Thesaurus
account as, answer, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, assumption, be afraid, believe, blind bargain, blind guess, bold conjecture, borderline case, bottom, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, chance, class, clear up, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, contingency, crack, daresay, debug, decipher, decode, deduce, deem, disentangle, divine, do, dope, dope out, double contingency, dowse for water, esteem, estimate, evaluate, expect, explain, fancy, fathom, feel, feeling, figure, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, forebode, forecast, foresee, foretell, form an estimate, fortune-tell, gamble, gauge, get, get right, give a guess, give an appreciation, guess right, guesstimate, guesswork, hariolate, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have it, have the idea, hazard a conjecture, hit it, hold, hold as, hunch, hypothesis, hypothesize, imagine, interpret, judge, judgement, look upon as, maintain, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make an estimation, make out, mark, measure, open question, open the lock, opine, perhaps, piece of guesswork, plumb, postulate, predict, prefigure, presage, presume, pretend, prize, prognosticate, prophesy, psych, psych out, puzzle out, question, rank, rate, ravel, ravel out, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reason, reckon, regard, resolve, riddle, risk assuming, rough guess, set down as, shot, sight-unseen transaction, solve, soothsay, sort out, speculate, speculation, stab, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, suspicion, take, take for, take it, tell fortunes, tell the future, tentatively suggest, theory, think, toss-up, touch and go, trow, undecided issue, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unverified supposition, unweave, valuate, value, vaticinate, venture a guess, view as, wager, ween, wild guess, work, work out

Etymology
gessen:. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin, akin to gisse:,  gissa:, or akin to  gessen:,  gissen:.

Noun

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 猜測, 猜测
 * Danish: gæt
 * Dutch: gok, gissing , veronderstelling , raden, denk
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian: gjetning
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: догадка (dogadka)
 * Scottish Gaelic:, tuairmse, barail
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Arabic: خمن
 * Catalan: endevinar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 猜測, 猜测,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ido: divinar


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 推測する, 察する,  憶測する
 * Latin: divino
 * Norwegian: gjette,,  gjeta
 * Polish: zgadnąć
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, угадывать
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: uganiti
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: טרעפן


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: raden
 * French: déduire


 * Greek: μαντεύω
 * Polish: odgadnąć
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Catalan: suposar
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Greek: ,


 * Latin: facio, sumere, fingere, poneo
 * Polish: przypuszczać
 * Romanian:, presupune
 * Spanish:

Related terms

 * guesser
 * guesswork
 * guesstimate
 * educated guess
 * guessing game
 * keep someone guessing
 * second-guess