Guesses Synonyms and Antonyms

To choose rightly on little or no evidence
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. selects
  2. picks
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. surmises
  2. supposes
  3. thinks
  4. speculates
  5. divines
  6. calculates
  7. opines
  8. reckons
  9. imagines
  10. infers
  11. hypothesizes
  12. estimates
  13. judges
  14. suspects
  15. conjectures
  16. prognosticates
  17. presages
  18. postulates
  19. figures
  20. approximates
  21. suggests
  22. predicates
  23. presumes
  24. hunches
  25. fancies
  26. gauges
  27. theorizes
  28. deduces
  29. concludes
  30. believes
  31. assumes
  32. asserts
  33. apprehends
  34. anticipates
Antonyms:
  1. calculates
  2. measures
Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. imagines
  2. hazards
  3. ventures
  4. presumes
  5. pretends
  6. supposes
  7. chances
Guess correctly; solve by guessing
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. infers

Guesses Sentence Examples

  • If she does not know the answer to a question, she guesses with mischievous assurance.

  • The guest with the most correct guesses wins!

  • Students should be given training in being able to make informed guesses.

  • If his team guesses correctly in the allotted time, they get a point.

  • Though very far from being hampered by any dogmatic philosophical or religious system of the past, his mind, until near the end, found sufficient satisfaction in the Christian view of life to make it indifferent to the restless, inquiring spirit of the present, and disinclined to play with any more recent solution of life's problems. He had no sympathy with either scepticism or formal dogmatism, and no need to hazard rash guesses respecting man's destiny.

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