outguess
Forecast someone's move
To outguess is to anticipate someone's actions or decisions correctly, staying one step ahead: She managed to outguess the detective at every turn.
The word implies a contest of wits—predicting what an opponent will do before they do it.
You can outguess a person, a market, or any system that might surprise you.
Act to prevent
- outsmartDefeat through superior cunning
- predictDeclare future outcomes
- foreseePredict future events
- surmiseGuess from incomplete information
infer · expect · intuit · divine · presume · conjecture · anticipate · read
Beat through superior cunning
- outplayDefeat through superior performance
- gambitRisky opening for advantage
- ployCalculated deceptive tactic
- feintDeceptive mock attack
bluff · maneuver · tactics · countermove · chess · mastermind · deception · checkmate
Solving secret communications
- cryptanalysisStudy of breaking ciphers
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- counterintelligenceDefense against enemy espionage
- spycraftMethods of secret agents
cipher · decryption · interrogation · sleuth · detective · infiltration · analysis · informant
preempt
Act to prevent
surmise · infer · expect · intuit · divine · presume · conjecture · anticipate · read · outthink
outwit
Beat through superior cunning
- outplayDefeat through superior performance
- gambitRisky opening for advantage
- ployCalculated deceptive tactic
feint · bluff · maneuver · tactics · countermove · chess · mastermind · deception · checkmate · stratagem
codebreaking
Solving secret communications
- cryptanalysisStudy of breaking ciphers
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- counterintelligenceDefense against enemy espionage
spycraft · cipher · decryption · interrogation · sleuth · detective · infiltration · analysis · informant · profiling
opponent
One who contends against
duel · matchup · face-off · showdown · one-upmanship · challenge · head-to-head · outmatch
outguessreact
Answer a stimulus
respond · follow · wait and see · play catch-up · trail
outguessmisjudge
Evaluate incorrectly
miscalculate · fall for · misread · misgauge · mispredict