Meaning

1 senses

  1. To beat through accurate anticipation of someone's plans and actions.

    Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon "Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold."

More definitions
  • attempt to anticipate or predict

Forms

outguesses, outguessing, outguessed, outguessed
Base formoutguess · to outguess
3rd person singularoutguesses
Present participleoutguessing
Past simpleoutguessed
Past participleoutguessed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoutguess
he, she, itoutguesses

Past simpleLesson

all personsoutguessed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave outguessed
he, she, ithas outguessed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill outguess

Synonyms

4 synonyms
outfoxoutsmartoutwit
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
outflowoutgooutgrowB2outhouseoutingB2outlandish
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