surmise

IPA: sɝmˈaɪz

noun

  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
  • Reflection; thought; posit.

verb

  • To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
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Examples of "surmise" in Sentences

  • The connection is a reasonable surmise.
  • We panted with curiosity and wild surmise.
  • Is anyone keen to surmise the salient points
  • For the moment, I'm going with the second surmise.
  • The lead surmises the rest of the article efficiently.
  • All these are feasible surmises by the process of metonymy.
  • This is consistent with what we surmise of the evolution of man.
  • He surmises he was unconsciously inspired by it to invent the signal.
  • I can reasonably surmise that it is meant to provoke and not conciliate.
  • He surmises it that he was unconsciously inspired by it to invent the sigil.

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