surmise – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
surmise
v.
infer, conjecture, guess, presume
n.
guess, supposition, assumption
surmise
Noun
1. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
(synonym) guess, conjecture, supposition, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
(hypernym) opinion, view
(hyponym) divination
(derivation) suspect
Verb
1. infer from incomplete evidence
(hypernym) deduce, infer, deduct, derive
(derivation) guess, conjecture, supposition, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
2. imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
(synonym) suspect
(hypernym) guess, venture, pretend, hazard
(derivation) guess, conjecture, supposition, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
Surmise
(v. t.)
To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
(n.)
Reflection; thought.
(n.)
A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Synonyms and related words:
account as, assume, assumption, axiom, be afraid, believe, blind guess, bold conjecture, conceive, conclude, conclusion, conjecture, consider, daresay, deduce, deem, divine, dream, esteem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel, feeling, gather, grant, guess, guesswork, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, hunch, hypothesis, hypothesize, imagine, infer, inference, judge, let, let be, look upon as, maintain, notion, opine, perhaps, postulate, postulation, postulatum, prefigure, premise, presume, presumption, presupposal, presuppose, presupposition, presurmise, pretend, proposition, provisionally accept, reckon, regard, repute, risk assuming, rough guess, say, sense, set down as, set of postulates, shot, speculate, speculation, stab, supposal, suppose, supposing, supposition, suspect, suspicion, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, theorize, theory, thesis, think, trow, understand, understanding, unverified supposition, venture a guess, view as, ween, wild guess, working hypothesis
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
