Definitions for second-guess

second-guess sec·ond-guess

Spelling: [sek-uh nd-ges]
IPA: /ˈsɛk əndˈgɛs/

Second-Guess is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 438 anagrams from letters in second-guess (-cdeegnosssu).

Definitions for second-guess

verb (used with object)

  1. to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
  2. to predict (something) or outguess (someone):

Origin of second-guess

First recorded in 1945-50

Examples for second-guess

Far be it from me to second-guess Jeff Shesol, who wrote in Newsweek that Obama should not take on the court.

And even EMS dispatch vets, generally reluctant to second-guess the work of one of their own, have piled on.

But he feels free to second-guess politicians “as a seasoned journalist.”

I think I would tell them not to worry about trying to second-guess the marketplace.

Rosensaft, the son of Holocaust survivors, added: “I am not going to second-guess from afar who he meets with.”

"It is a regrettable reality that some federal judges like to second-guess state courts," Scalia and Alito wrote.

But financiers who second-guess management about the details of company operations may be over-reaching.

The incentives for the police and the government are pretty clear, and I'm not willing to second-guess them.

So you may want to second-guess yourself next time you plan on drinking 4,000 calories worth of soda in a day.

Eisenhower, of course, was rather difficult to second-guess on such matters.

Word Value for second-guess
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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