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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration made in advance |
| Synonyms: | augury, cast, conjecture, crystal gazing, divination, dope, forecast, forecasting, foresight, foretelling, fortune-telling, guess, horoscope, hunch, indicator, of event anticipation, omen, palmistry, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, prophecy, soothsaying, surmising, tip, vaticination, zodiac |
| Main Entry: | presumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, hypothesis |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apriorism, assumption, basis, chance, conjecture, grounds, guess, likelihood, opinion, plausibility, posit, postulate, postulation, premise, presupposition, probability, reason, shot, shot in the dark, sneaking suspicion, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, thesis |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | reckon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add up; evaluate |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, approximate, calculate, call, cast, cipher, compute, conjecture, consider, count, count heads, count noses, deem, enumerate, esteem, estimate, figure, figure out, foot, gauge, guess, hold, judge, keep tabs, look upon, number, place, put, rate, regard, run down, square, sum, surmise, take account of, tally, think of, tick off, tot, tot up, total, tote, tote up, view |
| Antonyms: | neglect, subtract |
| Main Entry: | reckon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suppose, imagine |
| Synonyms: | assume, bank on, bargain for, be of the opinion, believe, build on, conjecture, count on, depend on, expect, fancy, gather, guess, plan on, rely on, surmise, suspect, take, think, trust in, understand |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve |
| Main Entry: | say |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make declaration |
| Synonyms: | add, affirm, allege, announce, answer, assert, break silence, claim, come out with, communicate, conjecture, convey, declare, deliver, disclose, divulge, do, estimate, express, flap, gab, give voice, guess, imagine, imply, jaw, judge, lip, maintain, make known, mention, opine, orate, perform, pronounce, put forth, put into words, rap, read, recite, rehearse, relate, remark, render, repeat, reply, report, respond, reveal, rumor, speak, spiel*, state, suggest, tell, utter, verbalize, voice, yak |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
| Antonyms: | ask, question, request |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | try, chance |
| Synonyms: | attempt, break, conjecture, effort, endeavor, fling*, go*, guess, occasion, opening, opportunity, pop*, show, slap, stab*, surmise, time, turn, whack, whirl* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | speculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about deeply and theorize |
| Synonyms: | beat one's brains, brainstorm*, build castles in air, call it, call the turn, cerebrate, chew over, cogitate, conjecture, consider, contemplate, deliberate, dope out, dope*, excogitate, figure, figure out*, guess, guesstimate, have a hunch, hazard a guess, head trip, hypothesize, kick around, meditate, muse, pipe-dream, psych out, read, read between lines, reason, reflect, review, ruminate, run it up flagpole, scheme, size up, study, suppose, surmise, suspect, weigh, wonder |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | speculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory, guess |
| Synonyms: | belief, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, conjecture, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, excogitation, guesstimate, guesswork, hunch, hypothesis, meditation, opinion, reflection, review, shot, shot in the dark, sneaking suspicion, stab, stab in the dark, studying, supposition, surmise, thinking, thought, weighing |
| Antonyms: | fact, information, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | suggest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | convey advice, plan, desire |
| Synonyms: | advance, advise, advocate, broach, commend, conjecture, exhort, give a tip, move, offer, plug*, pose, prefer, propone, propose, proposition, propound, put, put forward, put in two cents, put on to something, recommend, steer, submit, theorize, tip, tip off, tout |
| Antonyms: | declare, demand, order, tell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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