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SECOND-GUESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does second-guess mean?
• SECOND-GUESS (verb)
The verb SECOND-GUESS has 2 senses:
1. attempt to anticipate or predict
2. evaluate or criticize with hindsight
Familiarity information: SECOND-GUESS used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |




Past simple: second-guessed


Past participle: second-guessed


-ing form: second-guessing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Attempt to anticipate or predict
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
outguess; second-guess
Hypernyms (to "second-guess" is one way to...):
anticipate; call; forebode; foretell; predict; prognosticate; promise (make a prediction about; tell in advance)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Evaluate or criticize with hindsight
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "second-guess" is one way to...):
comment (explain or interpret something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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