second-guessverb [ T ]
uk/ˌsek.əndˈɡes/us/ˌsek.əndˈɡes/second-guess verb [ T ] (GUESS)
to guess what someone will do in the future:
She's always trying to second-guess the boss.
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Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- projection
- prophesy
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scent
- visionary
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second-guess verb [ T ] (CRITICIZE)
US to criticize someone's actions or an event after it has happened:
Of course it's easy to second-guess the management of the election campaign, but I do think serious mistakes were made.
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- nagging
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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