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

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