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guess English

Meaning guess meaning

What does guess mean?
Definitions in simple English

guess Verb

— If you guess at something, you try to imagine what it might be, but you don't know the answer. "What happened? Why has play stopped?" "I don't know. I guess a player's hurt, maybe."

guess Noun

— A guess is an answer that you give when you don't know the real answer. "Wow, what a great car! How much do you think it costs?" "My guess is around $80,000."

guess

— verb (= think, suppose, imagine) expect, believe, or suppose I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel 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 — verb (= pretend) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong — verb guess correctly; solve by guessing He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize — verb (= estimate, judge) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds — noun a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence — noun an estimate based on little or no information

Synonyms guess synonyms

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conjecture surmise suppose estimate presume supposition speculate think infer assume imagine speculation reckon hypothesis guesswork predict approximate anticipate suspect assumption opine judge believe expect calculate theory shot say estimation divine understand sense opinion imagination foretell forecast figure out figure deem conclude work out wonder venture valuation trace thought surmisal suggest solve rough estimate

Topics guess topics

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Guess
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Conjugation guess conjugation

How do you conjugate guess?

guess · verb

Examples guess examples

How do I use guess in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You can probably guess what happens though.
Can you guess my age?
I guess Tom was right.
I guess I'm really in trouble now.
I guess I'm a little curious.
I guess Tom isn't at home.
I guess we've got a problem.
Can you guess what this is?
Can you guess what I have here?
Can you guess how old I am?
I guess that I have to trust you.
I didn't know the correct answer, so I made a random guess.
I guess we'll have to find another singer.
I guess my view on friendship is pretty bleak because I've never really had to rely on anyone for anything.
With his colored clothes, his long wig and his white gloves, one could guess he has run away from some kind of Disneyland.
Your guess is entirely off the mark.
I guess that you can't do it.
I guess you are right.
I'm glad you enjoy skiing, but I guess it's just not my cup of tea.
I guess we should leave now.
I guess we could.
I guess I haven't made myself clear.
Guess what the managing director started off the meeting by saying. The first thing out of his mouth was an announcement of some major restructuring.
Can you guess which cooler is the most efficient?
Guess where I've been.
I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

Movie subtitles

I guess.
I guess that's sort of true.
I guess that's kinda what you were going for.
I guess I never really thought of it like that.
I guess they took it.
I guess you can say.
I guess he couldn't take it anymore.
Guess you don't need me at all. No, sweetheart.
So, I guess the rumors about you joining us are true, then?
When I'm sleeping, I guess.
Yeah, I guess when you meet someone like that. who gets you, quirks and all. nothing else really matters, right?
Oh, well, I mean, if it's. not something you want, I mean, I guess I.
Guess I'm just having a bad year.
Guess what. I have great news.
I have bad news. - I can guess.
You can stay until your flight, I guess.
One day at a time, I guess.
Be honest. If he sees this thing, is he gonna guess what happened?
So, I guess I live with Grace now.
I guess, yeah.
Uh, I guess now that the. the play's over, we don't really have an excuse to hang out anymore.
I'm good, I guess.
I guess that's a good thing.
I guess I will.
Well, I guess she gave me up, 'cause this life didn't make sense to her.
Well, I guess I could.
I can't even begin to guess how it was made, but this thing serves as some sort of antenna for receiving thought-waves from The Blessed and apparently can control machines.
He's fine, but when he'll actually wake up, well, that's anyone's guess.
I guess your cousin's best friend's older brother's girlfriend's sister ripped us off.
I guess I felt bad that his supposed friend was betraying him and what my brother was doing to him, but I was just trying to do him a favour.
But I guess it never occurred to me that my best friend would betray me.
Guess so.
As usual, I guess you're right.
In season two, he feels almost like he was blessed, I guess, in a way, with this power, and that he has to use his powers for good. Here we go.
In season two, Derek definitely has more responsibility, having to be in charge and responsible for these three lives that he's kind of, I guess, in a way created.
Daniel is a really, really nice, really sweet person, and he has such a gentle-- a very gentle spirit, I guess you can say.
I guess a black whiskered whale really has no sense.
YEAH, I GUESS. IS EVERYTHING OKAY?
Guess you don't need me at all.
Um. When I'm sleeping, I guess.

News and current affairs

In foreign policy, one can only guess what her priorities would be.
Moreover, Kim's health problems might have worsened much faster than outsiders guess, further complicating matters.
My guess is that the US will not allow Blix and the inspectors that he oversees to be deceived by Iraq again.
Where the new balance will be struck is anybody's guess.
The details are still anyone's guess, but the consensus view is that the EU will have many of the constitution's most important procedural mechanisms by sometime next year.
Lower growth is the best guess for the medium term.
We can only guess at the company's real reason for taking down the Web site, but fear of repercussions against its commercial interests in China seems likely to have been an important factor.
Though exchange rates are notoriously unpredictable, the best guess is that a slow unwinding of the massive US trade deficit will keep the dollar on a path of gradual long-term decline.
How long this education might take was anybody's guess.
Japan is a hush-hush society, where everyone is supposed to guess what is going on, and the media are careful not to provoke social division.
It is hard to guess in advance the consequences of such a failure.
My own guess is that conservative finance ministries in rich countries, and the IMF staff as well, are blind to the political ramifications of their actions.
His best guess is that it is a car of average quality, for which he will pay only the average price.
As for why buyers pay these outlandish sums, my guess is that they think that owning original works by well-known artists will enhance their own status.
One can only guess whether some of those joining this effort are motivated by concern that they themselves may some day face charges like those leveled at Bashir by the ICC judges.
And my best guess is that we will see a mix of currency wars, currency collapses, and currency chaos in the year ahead - but that this won't spell the end of the economic recovery, much less the end of the world.
Guess which one the US and many other countries have?
CAIRO - Egypt's first-ever freely elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, has appointed his first cabinet, and guess what? It is crammed with officials from the old regime.
Unfortunately, no precise mathematical model can determine correlation across securities, which is always an educated guess based mostly (sometimes entirely) on past behavior.
How the resulting losses imposed on debt holders will be divided between the various eurozone institutions and the IMF is anyone's guess.
Guess which way Scotland actually voted.
My guess is that on polling day, Prime Minister David Cameron will emerge holding this asset.
But Europe's long history of exploitative colonialism makes it hard to guess how Asian and African institutions would have evolved in a parallel universe where Europeans came only to trade, not to conquer.

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