surmise

Speech parts

1. surmise - Noun

2. surmise - Verb

Meaning

A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

Reflection; thought.

To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

suspect conjecture suspicion supposition reason sense judge believe think figure belief consider understand hypothesis divine
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Antonyms

fact evidence axiom accept proof measurement
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Hypernyms

opinion derive venture hazard guess infer

Hyponyms

divination

Derivatives

surmised surmising

Anagrams

misuser Reismus

Examples

I suspect he is a fugitive Source: Internet

I surmised that the butler did it Source: Internet

Asconius 84C Despite this, Catiline was acquitted again, though some surmise that it was through the influence of Caesar, who presided over the court. Source: Internet

Digory and Polly surmise that the wood is not really a proper world at all but a " Wood between the Worlds ", similar to the attic that links their rowhouses back in England, and that each pool leads to a separate universe. Source: Internet

In his notes to Hesiod's Works and Days (p. 168) M. L. West has surmised that Erasmus may have confused the story of Pandora with the story found elsewhere of a box which was opened by Psyche ; the Panofskys (1956) follow him in this surmise. Source: Internet

I can only surmise from our discussions this is a personal choice more than about basketball.” Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

surmisably surmisal surmisant surmisedly surmiser surmising