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.
  • Second, as I'm sure you may surmise, is the word "author."
  • 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.
  • What really happened we do not know, but the agreed surmise is that it was some stroke of the heart.
  • Also as you may surmise from the title, Nine pushes the consent issue a little before he gets an actual yes from Rose.
  • But all I can surmise is that compared to those mushy frozen vegetables that I mentioned in gross foods, these were heaven.
  • As you can surmise from the whole movie situation, the Colombian bus system seems to be run by evangelicals and lewd fellows of the baser sort.
  • We can surmise from the inventory too that Salas was probably a literate man as his goods included four books on surgery, a book of stories, and two hand-painted writing desks.
  • But my surmise is that Ms. Woodling has been salting away a cadre of such people in the DOJ (and that at least some of this cadre have been hired over the conventionally-credentialed people listed by Bart, which in itself is scarcely cause for concern, depending on the numbers).
  • When pump number six breaks down, threatening the precious drinking water and breathable air with its released chemicals - which we can surmise is the cause of mankind's slow descent from brainy to brainless - Alvin lacks the means to fix it and so embarks on a short quest to the local college Engineering department and library.

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