Guess and Try

Guess

Guess verb - To form an opinion from little or no evidence.

Try and guess are semantically related in gamble topic. In some cases you can use "Try" instead the word "Guess" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: guessed, guessing

Try

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

Guess and try are semantically related in gamble topic. Sometimes you can use "Guess" instead the word "Try" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: tried, trying

How words are described

good good guess good try
safe safe guess safe try
best best guess best try
common common guess common try
Other adjectives: short, complete, reasonable, obvious, actual, real, hard, huge, next, alternate, last, previous.

Common collocations

woman guess woman try woman
name guess name try name
someone guess someone try someone
number guess number try number
Other words: rest, time, way, game, nothing, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Vagina Dentata Well, Trance decides to take her advice, but since the extent of her powers was never quite clear in the series... try and guess what Harper's last words in the fanfic were.
  • In the Father Ted Christmas special, Ted gets Mrs Doyle to try and guess the name of their new house guest.
  • Video Game / Digimon Digital Card Battle While later opponents have better strategies, a savvy player can at least try and guess what they are going to do.
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