reckon

Speech parts

1. reckon - Noun

2. reckon - Verb

Meaning

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.

To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

calculate compute think estimate suppose guess enumerate cypher number value rate view account believe look
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Antonyms

know measure estimate designate delete deprive
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Hypernyms

reason judge believe think consider estimate

Hyponyms

process include like make average value

Phrases with the word

to reckon with reckon without one's host i reckon to reckon

Derivatives

reckoned reckoning

Anagrams

conker Cerkno rocken

Examples

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17). Basil of Caesarea

We seldom call any body lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some Service. Bernard Mandeville

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II. Christopher Vokes

Don't reckon your eggs before they are laid. Italian Proverb

Don't reckon without your host. German Proverb

He that reckons without his host must reckon again. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

recklessness reckling Reckner reckon for reckon on reckon out