surmise[verb]Synonyms:- guess, conjecture, imagine, presume, speculate, suppose
[noun]Synonyms:- guess, assumption, conjecture, presumption, speculation, supposition
Related Idioms: risk assuming, venture a guess
Related Words: consider,
regard,
hypothesize,
theorize [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
sur‧mise /səˈmaɪz $ sər-/
verb [transitive][
Date: 1500-1600;
Language: Old French;
Origin: past participle of surmetre 'to accuse', from Latin supermettere 'to throw on', from mittere 'to send']
formal to guess that something is true, using the information you know already
surmise that
When he came in, he didn’t look up, so she surmised that he was in a bad mood.—surmise noun [uncountable and countable]:
Charles was glad to have his surmise confirmed. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲