surmise

Plural: surmises

Noun

• a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
• Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
• Reflection; thought; posit.

Verb

Verb Forms: surmised, surmising, surmises

• To infer something with little evidence; to guess or conjecture.
• infer from incomplete evidence
• imagine to be the case or true or probable
  • "I surmised that the butler did it"
• To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.

Examples

• I could only surmise my opponent’s strategy by the tiles they avoided placing.
• If, as I surmise, you see the ladies this evening, you might mention my intended visit.
• surmises of jealousy or of envy
• This opinion, however, is merely a surmise, which may or may not be the case.

Synonyms

conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, suspect, arread, assume, assumption, conject, daresay, dope, educated guess, fancy, foreguess, given, go out on a limb, guesstimate, hunch, hypothesize, hypotheticate, imagine, infer, overhope, posit, possibility, postulate, presume, presumption, reckon, speculate, suppose, surmise, take a stab at, take for granted, take something as read, theorize, theory, ween, working hypothesis

Anagrams of surmise