| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard, consider |
| Synonyms: | account, allow, appraise, assume, be afraid, believe, calculate, conceive, conjecture, credit, daresay, divine, esteem, estimate, expect, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, know, presume, reckon, sense, set store by, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, understand, view |
| Main Entry: | esteem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consider, believe |
| Synonyms: | account, calculate, deem, estimate, hold, judge, rate, reckon, regard, think, view |
| Antonyms: | deride, disbelieve, disregard, disrespect |
| Main Entry: | evaluate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | judge |
| Synonyms: | appraise, assay, assess, calculate, check, check out, class, classify, criticize, decide, estimate, figure out, fiture, gauge, grade, guesstimate, look over, peg, price out, rank, rate, read, reckon, set at, size, size up, survey, take account of, take measure, valuate, value, weigh |
| Main Entry: | fathom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discern, understand |
| Synonyms: | appreciate, apprehend, catch, cognize, comprehend, dig, divine, estimate, figure out, follow, gauge, get, get to the bottom, grasp, have, interpret, know, measure, penetrate, perceive, pierce, pinpoint, plumb, probe, recognize, savvy, sound, unravel |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand, not get |
| Main Entry: | figure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | calculate, compute |
| Synonyms: | add, cast, cipher, count, count heads, count noses, cut ice, dope out, enumerate, estimate, fix a price, foot*, guess, keep tabs, number, reckon, run down, sum, summate, take account of, tally, tot, tot up, total, totalize, tote, work out |
| Antonyms: | estimate, guess |
| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, guess |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, calculate, call the turn, conclude, conjecture, demonstrate, determine, divine, dope out, estimate, figure, figure out*, foresee, foretell, gather, gauge, in the cards, infer, plan, portend, predetermine, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, reason, see it coming, soothsay, surmise, telegraph |
| Main Entry: | gauge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | measure, judge |
| Synonyms: | adjudge, appraise, ascertain, assess, calculate, calibrate, check, check out, compute, count, determine, estimate, evaluate, eye*, figure, figure in, guess, guesstimate, have one's number, look over, meter, peg, quantify, quantitate, rate, reckon, scale, size, size up, take account of, tally, value, weigh |
| Antonyms: | estimate, guess |
| Main Entry: | guess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try to figure out; imagine |
| Synonyms: | believe, calculate, chance, conjecture, dare say, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, fancy*, fathom, go out on a limb, guesstimate, happen upon, hazard*, hypothesize, infer, judge, jump to a conclusion, lump it, opine, penetrate, pick, postulate, predicate, predict, presume, pretend, reason, reckon, select, size up, solve, speculate, suggest, suppose, surmise, survey, suspect, take a shot at, take a stab at, theorize, think, think likely, venture, work out* |
| Antonyms: | calculate, measure |
| Main Entry: | judge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make decision from evidence; deduce |
| Synonyms: | act on, adjudge, adjudicate, appraise, appreciate, approximate, arbitrate, arrive, ascertain, assess, check, collect, conclude, condemn, consider, criticize, decide, decree, deduct, derive, determine, discern, distinguish, doom, draw, esteem, estimate, evaluate, examine, find, gather, give a hearing, make, make out, mediate, pass sentence, place, pronounce sentence, put, rate, reckon, referee, resolve, review, rule, sentence, settle, sit, size up, suppose, test, try, umpire, value |