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.