Guess
Guess noun - An opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence.
Usage example: if you don't know the answer for sure, just make a guess
Speculation is a synonym for guess in opinion topic. In some cases you can use "Speculation" instead a noun "Guess", when it comes to topics like estimate, conclusion. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- inference and guess
- inference and speculation
- surmise and guess
- surmise and speculation
- notion and guess
- notion and speculation
- opinion and guess
- opinion and speculation
- thought and guess
- thought and speculation
- conjecture and guess
- conjecture and speculation
- venture and guess
- venture and speculation
How words are described
| common | common guess | common speculation |
| specific | specific guess | specific speculation |
| current | current guess | current speculation |
| initial | initial guess | initial speculation |
| Other adjectives: wild, popular, real, successful, bad, pessimistic, amusing, early, further, hilarious, above, random, last, educated, modern. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Speculation as to his identity continues to this day, although the best guess is that he was jailed for something he knew rather than who he was.
Source: Film / The Iron Mask - If the mother refuses to tell, only men who have actually slept with her can even guess, and speculation tends to run wild.
Source: Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe - This double-emphasis may have been in an attempt to prevent speculation or curtail human/shinigami shipping, though you can guess how well that turned out
XXXVI also says shinigami cannot have sex with each other, though it is not clear if this is impossible or forbidden.
Source: Can't Have Sex, Ever
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