Surmise

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To infer (something) without sufficiently conclusive evidence.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a guess or conjecture.
  • n. An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, surmises of jealousy or of envy.
  • n. Reflection; thought; posit.
  • v. To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
  • n. Reflection; thought.
  • v. To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The thought that something may be, of which, however, there is no certain or strong evidence; speculation; conjecture.
  • n. Thought; reflection.
  • n. Synonyms See surmise, verb, and inference.
  • To accuse; make a charge against; also, to bring forward as an accusation.
  • In old English law, to suggest; allege.
  • To infer or guess upon slight evidence; conjecture; suspect.
  • Synonyms Imagine, Guess, etc. (see conjecture); fancy, apprehend, mistrust.
  • n. In old English law, a suggestion. See suggestion, 5.
  • n. In ecclesiastical law, an allegation in a libel.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
  • v. imagine to be the case or true or probable
  • v. infer from incomplete evidence
  • Verb Form
    surmised    surmises    surmising   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    guess    hazard    pretend    venture    infer    deduct    deduce    derive   
    Form
    surmised    surmising   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    conjecture    suspicion    supposition    doubt    guess    reflection    thought   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ais    Allies    Guise    Guys    Lise    Marseilles    Thais    Wise    advise    ais   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts