| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  g s |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: guessed, guess·ing, guess·es
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1a. To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information. b. To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information. 2. To form a correct estimate or conjecture of: guessed the answer. 3. To suppose; think: I guess he was wrong. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To make an estimate or conjecture: We could only guess at her motives. 2. To estimate or conjecture correctly. | | NOUN: | 1. An act or instance of guessing. 2. A conjecture arrived at by guessing. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English gessen, probably of Scandinavian origin. See ghend- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | guess er —NOUN
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