Find the of
☀
Appearance
✓Use device theme  
✓Dark theme
✓Light theme

What is the verb for guesswork?

What's the verb for guesswork? Here's the word you're looking for.

guess
  1. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
  2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
  3. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
  4. (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
  5. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. estimate, conjecture, calculate, predict, fathom, hypothesise, hypothesize, judge, postulate, reckon, speculate, gauge, surmise, approximate, deduce, call, determine, evaluate, figure, gage, guesstimate, hazard, make, place, put, rate, suppose, appraise, infer, reason, suggest, theorise, theorize, venture, chance, pick, predicate, select, solve, survey, size up, make a guess at, make an estimate of, weigh up, happen upon, think likely, hazard a guess, work out, form an opinion of, jump to a conclusion … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Can you guess my age?”
      “I guess the conclusion is that this is a mediocre, eminently forgettable album.”
guessing
  1. present participle of guess
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feeling, believing, thinking, holding, maintaining, deeming, considering, judging, assuming, holding that, viewing, concluding, figuring, reckoning, adjudging, assessing, considering it right, esteeming, estimating, expecting, regarding, adjudicating, coming to the conclusion that, opining, supposing, imagining, suspecting, conjecturing, presuming, surmising, fancying, daresaying, conceiving, divining, allowing, speculating, suspicioning, daring say, gathering, rating, counting, understanding, gauging, deducing, evaluating, gaging, calling, inferring, appraising, determining … more
guesses
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guess
  2. Synonyms:
      3. says, estimates, considers, dares say, hazards a guess, judges, posits, postulates, predicts, reckons, speculates, surmises, theorizes, thinks, ventures, conceives, deduces, figures, gathers, perceives, premises, suspects, takes, theorises, believes, envisages, deems, conjectures, supposes, imagines, presumes, feels, assumes, esteems, expects, fancies, holds, daresays, allows, divines, concludes, opines, suspicions, calculates, hypothesizes, fathoms, gauges, approximates, guesstimates, evaluates … more
guesseth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of guess
guessest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of guess
guessed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of guess
  2. Synonyms:
      3. took, assumed, supposed, presumed, expected, imagined, believed, gathered, surmised, conjectured, suspected, trusted, dared say, deduced, estimated, figured, hypothesized, reasoned, understood, divined, fancied, gleaned, inferred, reckoned, speculated, thought, compassed, concluded, construed, dare-said, deemed, granted, interpreted, judged, looked upon, perceived, posited, postulated, predicated, presupposed, theorized, hazarded a guess, hypothesised, theorised, took as read, took for granted, considered, put, ventured, esteemed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Who'd have guessed folks living this close to Edina would be so friendly after dark?”
      “You may have guessed that this is not the first time that he kept me waiting.”
      “She had really been crying in her sleep, she guessed, since her eyes were very watery, and her cheeks felt tight from the dried salty tears.”
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
guesstimate
guesstimate
guesstimate
guesstimated
guesstimates
guesstimating
guessworks
guest
guest
guested
guestfree
guestfriendly
9-letter Words Starting With
g
gu
gue
gues
guess
guessw
guesswo
guesswor
Find Verbs
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Rhymes
Sentences
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Plural
Singular
Past Tense
Present Tense
Word Unscrambler
Words With Friends
Scrabble
Crossword / Codeword
iOS / Apple
Android
Home
About Us
Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Antonyms
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Copyright WordHippo © 2024