316 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɡˈɛsɪŋ], [ ɡˈɛsɪŋ], [ ɡ_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for guessing:

• conjectural (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• predictive (adjective)
• wondering (adjective)
• dead-reckoning (noun)
• guessing (noun)
• guesswork (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• supposition (noun)
• assess (verb)
• calculating (verb)
• guess (verb)
• supposing (verb)
• other synonyms
• dead-reckoning
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for guessing

Synonyms for Guessing:

• adj.

  • conjectural (adjective)
  • supposed,
  • academic,
  • theoretical,
  • reputed,
  • uncertain,
  • assumed,
  • tentative,
  • Suppositive,
  • unresolved,
  • doubtful,
  • Surmised,
  • suppositious,
  • figured,
  • suppositional.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • putative,
  • wondering,
  • conjectural,
  • guesstimated,
  • on a long shot,
  • guessing,
  • on a hunch,
  • hypothetical.
  • predictive (adjective)
  • Auguring,
  • foretelling,
  • Conjecturing,
  • Presaging,
  • Portending.
  • wondering (adjective)
  • inquiring,
  • curious,
  • pondering,
  • speculative,
  • questioning.

• n.

  • dead-reckoning (noun)
  • dead-reckoning.
  • guessing (noun)
  • guesswork,
  • inference,
  • assuming,
  • fancy,
  • hunch,
  • assumption,
  • Positing,
  • imagination,
  • opinion,
  • Postulating,
  • predisposition,
  • speculation,
  • surmise,
  • Theorizing,
  • presumption,
  • deduction,
  • shot.
  • guesswork (noun)
  • going by dead reckoning,
  • going by guess and by God,
  • taking for granted,
  • leaping to conclusions.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • estimate,
  • approximation,
  • estimation,
  • supposition,
  • idea.
  • supposition (noun)
  • postulation,
  • stab in the dark,
  • theory,
  • premise,
  • condition,
  • Apriorism,
  • presupposition,
  • rough guess,
  • likelihood,
  • notion,
  • suspicion,
  • shot in the dark,
  • sneaking suspicion,
  • thesis,
  • doubt,
  • posit.

• v.

  • assess (verb)
  • determine,
  • guess,
  • appraise,
  • compute,
  • fix,
  • apprise,
  • dig it,
  • gauge,
  • nick,
  • take measure,
  • peg,
  • valuate,
  • value,
  • weigh,
  • rate,
  • assay,
  • set.
  • calculating (verb)
  • Assessing,
  • Adding,
  • reckoning,
  • Considering,
  • ranking,
  • rating,
  • Multiplying,
  • appraising,
  • judging,
  • measuring,
  • Enumerating,
  • calculating,
  • Surmising,
  • Inferring,
  • scheming,
  • weighing,
  • Systematizing,
  • Triangulating,
  • studying,
  • Gauging,
  • figuring,
  • Totaling,
  • Presuming,
  • rationalizing,
  • Summing,
  • quantifying,
  • Deducing,
  • accounting,
  • Valuing,
  • Estimating,
  • Tallying,
  • evaluating,
  • counting,
  • Approximating,
  • determining,
  • planning,
  • scoring,
  • Supposing,
  • programming,
  • quantizing,
  • scheduling,
  • thinking,
  • concluding,
  • dividing,
  • Plotting,
  • computing.
  • guess (verb)
  • penetrate,
  • survey,
  • pretend,
  • opine,
  • deem,
  • judge,
  • speculate,
  • divine,
  • hypothesize,
  • venture,
  • conjecture,
  • theorize,
  • reckon,
  • deduce,
  • jump to a conclusion,
  • fathom,
  • suggest,
  • size up,
  • infer,
  • take a stab at,
  • predict,
  • solve,
  • think,
  • chance,
  • pick,
  • suppose,
  • think likely,
  • believe,
  • presume,
  • select,
  • calculate,
  • postulate,
  • happen upon,
  • dare say,
  • suspect,
  • predicate,
  • lump it,
  • guesstimate,
  • reason,
  • go out on a limb,
  • take a shot at.
  • supposing (verb)
  • hypothesizing,
  • fantasizing,
  • Speculating,
  • philosophizing,
  • Imagining,
  • Conceiving,
  • Prophesying.

• Other synonyms:

  • dead-reckoning
  • dead reckoning.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • nipping,
  • foreboding,
  • barb,
  • Adventuring,
  • shooting,
  • snapshot,
  • penetrating,
  • dismayed,
  • lost,
  • jab,
  • stab,
  • stick,
  • Venturing,
  • in a pickle,
  • crevice,
  • Presupposing,
  • Divining,
  • prognosticative,
  • dig,
  • disturbed,
  • jibe,
  • Aiming,
  • gibe,
  • at sea,
  • calling,
  • arrow,
  • Adjudicating,
  • chink,
  • Chancing,
  • Predicting,
  • fissure,
  • scene,
  • Expecting,
  • in a maze,
  • doubting,
  • predictive,
  • distraught,
  • injection,
  • Suggesting,
  • photograph,
  • aspect,
  • Opining,
  • discomposed,
  • Cogitating,
  • in a stew,
  • Esteeming,
  • surmisal,
  • gambling,
  • prognostic,
  • Jibing,
  • recalling,
  • cracking,
  • shooter,
  • generalising,
  • blow,
  • without a clue,
  • Gibing,
  • Labelling,
  • Retrieving,
  • abroad,
  • Animadverting,
  • Labeling,
  • mazed,
  • crack,
  • Deducting,
  • stroke,
  • Fancying,
  • Shotting,
  • pellet,
  • Pronouncing,
  • extrapolating,
  • disconcerted,
  • turned around,
  • snap,
  • Staking,
  • Envisaging,
  • deriving,
  • stroking,
  • gathering,
  • flummoxed,
  • pretending,
  • weening,
  • perturbed,
  • put out,
  • abashed,
  • Generalizing,
  • clueless,
  • slam,
  • stabbing,
  • stochastic,
  • reasoning,
  • believing,
  • Risking,
  • Recollecting,
  • Embarking,
  • upset,
  • astray,
  • Depending,
  • pelleting,
  • confused,
  • theorising,
  • touch,
  • bewildered,
  • view,
  • shaft,
  • Hazarding,
  • blastoff,
  • prospect,
  • fracture,
  • Suspecting,
  • remembering,
  • Barbing,
  • off the track,
  • hypothesis,
  • sensing,
  • Anticipating,
  • bothered,
  • reminding,
  • embarrassed,
  • Shafting,
  • Slamming,
  • cranny,
  • scenery,
  • adrift,
  • Deeming,
  • distracted,
  • in a scrape,
  • Jeopardizing,
  • disoriented.

Paraphrases for Guessing:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    guess.
  • Noun, plural
    guesses.

• Independent

  • Noun, plural
    games, riddles.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    assuming, becoming, fishing, marking, owing, printing, saying, sensing, shall, suppose, telling, thinking, visiting, Entailing, Hoping, Implying, Involving, Presuming, Speculating, Supposing.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    imagine, Imagining.