Thesaurus: guess

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1. v. t. To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
2. v. t. To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
3. v. t. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
4. v. t. To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
5. v. t. To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.
6. v. i. To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.
7. n. An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.
8. n. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
9. n. an estimate based on little or no information
10. v. expect, believe, or suppose
11. v. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
12. v. judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)