hazard a guess
Risk a prediction
To hazard a guess is to offer an answer or opinion when you're uncertain, accepting the risk of being wrong.
The phrase acknowledges that guessing involves some danger to one's credibility or pride.
I'd hazard a guess that she's in her mid-forties.
It often appears in polite or tentative contexts where the speaker wants to contribute an idea without claiming confidence.
- supposeAccept as true tentatively
- thinkProcess with the mind
- suspectBelieve to be likely
- positAssume for argument
- presumeAccept without verification
conjecture · infer · chance · risk · venture · go out on a limb · take a shot · wager · gamble · take a stab · surmise · speculate · assume · hypothesis · estimate · ballpark figure · suggest · propose
- risk phrasestake a chance, take a gamble, risk it all, go for broke, roll the dice
- uncertaintyuncertainty, uncertain, unknown, unsure, unclear
hazard a guessremain silent
say nothing · hold one's tongue · keep one's counsel · keep mum · sit on the fence
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