guessed
/ɡɛst/
guessed is the simple past and past participle of guess.
Meaning of guess
Verb
guess (third-person singular simple present guesses, present participle guessing, simple past and past participle guessed)
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- We can only guess at what was going through her mind.
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
- To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- "I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."
- To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
- Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
Words formed from guessed
Phrases with guessed
Words that rhyme with guessed
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- attest
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
Questions about guessed
- What is guessed the simple past and past participle of?
- Guessed is the simple past and past participle of guess.
- How do you pronounce guessed?
- Guessed is pronounced /ɡɛst/.
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