Surmise

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  • intransitive verb. To make a judgment about (something) without sufficient evidence; guess.
  • intransitive verb. To say (something) as a guess or conjecture.
  • intransitive verb. To make a guess or conjecture.
  • noun. An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The thought that something may be, of which, however, there is no certain or strong evidence; speculation; conjecture.
  • noun. Thought; reflection.
  • noun. Synonyms See surmise, verb, and inference.
  • To accuse; make a charge against; also, to bring forward as an accusation.
  • In old English law, to suggest; allege.
  • To infer or guess upon slight evidence; conjecture; suspect.
  • Synonyms Imagine, Guess, etc. (see conjecture); fancy, apprehend, mistrust.
  • noun. In old English law, a suggestion. See suggestion, 5.
  • noun. In ecclesiastical law, an allegation in a libel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
  • noun. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
  • noun. Reflection; thought.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, surmises of jealousy or of envy.
  • noun. Reflection; thought; posit.
  • verb. To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
  • verb. imagine to be the case or true or probable
  • verb. infer from incomplete evidence
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    deduce  deduct  derive  guess  hazard  
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    Ais  Allies  Guise  Guys  Lise  
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