Associations to the word «Surmise»

Wiktionary

SURMISE, noun. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
SURMISE, noun. Reflection; thought; posit.
SURMISE, verb. To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

Dictionary definition

SURMISE, noun. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
SURMISE, verb. Infer from incomplete evidence.
SURMISE, verb. Imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats