Surmise

Definition: Surmise

Surmise

Noun

1. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.

Verb

1. Infer from incomplete evidence.

2. Imagine to be true; "I suspect he is a fugitive".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "surmise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Surmise

Belief

View as, consider as, take as, hold as, conceive as, regard as, esteem as, deem as, look upon as, account as, set down as; surmise.

Persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self-conviction; certainty; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression; (idea); surmise; conclusion; (judgment).

Supposition

Conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot, shot in the dark; conjecturality; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness).

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Crosswords: Surmise

It's not difficult to surmise Nathan's feelings towards killing these guards; and my own proclivities are well-known and often-lamented facts of penal lore. (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg)

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Books

• Blue Kansas Sky: Four Short Novels of Memory, Magic, Surmise & Estrangement (reference)

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This I surmise, from having found the original draft of the last paragraph of Vol.

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Afrikaans

veronderstel (guess, hypothesize, presume, suppose), meen (account, accredit, believe, deem, guess, presume, suppose), vermoë (ability, guess, presume, suppose). (various references)

Albanian

pandehje (presumption, presupposition), pandeh (presuppose), marr me mend (divine, guess, perceive, picture, presume, presuppose), hamendësoj (conjecture, hypothesize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حدس (anticipation, conjecture, intuition), ‏تكهن (augur, auspice, divine, forecast, foretell, omen, predict, prediction, prognostic, prognosticate, prognostication, tip), ‏خمن (appraise, estimate, evaluate, guess, infer, riddle, size up, speculate, suppose), ‏رجم (lapidate, stone, throw, throwing), ‏ظنية, ‏ظن (calculate, fancy, guess, imagine, misgiving, reckon, suppose, supposition, suspect, think). (various references)

Bulgarian 

предположение (assumption, conjecture, guess, hypothesis, if, postulate, presumption, presupposition, speculation, suggestion, supposition), правя догадки, подозирам (be suspicious, doubt, misdoubt, mistrust, sus, suspect), изказвам предположение (suggest), догадка (conjecture, guess). (various references)

Chinese 

猜度 (conjecture), 猜測 (conjecture, guess), 推测 (extrapolation, Fathomed, Fathoming, Presumption, speculate, Speculated, Speculating, Surmised, Surmising), 推測 (conjecture, speculate, speculation), 揣 (estimate, figure, guess, put into). (various references)

Czech

tušit (conjecture, forebode, presage, sense, smell, suspect), předpokládat (assume, imagine, involve, postulate, presume, presuppose, suppose, trust, visualize), domnìnka (assumption, belief, conjecture, guess, hypothesis, supposition), dohadovat se (conjecture), dohad (conjecture, guess). (various references)

Danish

antage (guess, presume, suppose). (various references)

Dutch

vermoeden (conjecture, guess, presume, suppose, supposition), gissen (conjecture, guess). (various references)

Esperanto

supozi (guess, presume, suppose), konjekti (conjecture). (various references)

Faeroese

skjóta upp á (conjecture), meta (appraise, conjecture, estimate, rate), halda (account, accredit, believe, celebrate, deem, guess, hang onto, have a subscription, hold, presume, retain, suppose, take in), ætla (conjecture, destine, earmark, intend, mean, ordain). (various references)

Farsi 

گمان بردن (Conjecture), گمان (Aim, Assumption, Belief, Conjecture, Doubt, Guess, Idea, Impression, Opinion, Supposition, Thought), حدس زدن (Conjecture, Guess, Guesstimate, Imagine, Rede), حدس (Aim, Conjecture, Guess), تخمین (Approximation, Assessment, Conjecture, Estimate, Guess), ظن (Conjecture, Guess, Hunch). (various references)

Finnish

otaksua (assume, conjecture, suppose, take for granted), olettaa (assume, guess, presume, suppose). (various references)

French

conjecturer, supposer (be supposed, suppose). (various references)

Frisian

fermoedzje (guess, presume, suppose), ergje (guess, presume, suppose). (various references)

German

vermuten (assume, conjecture, guess, imagine, presume, suppose, suspect, think, to assume, to suppose, to surmise, to suspect), mutmaßen (conjecture, to suppose). (various references)

Greek 

μαντεύω (augur, guess, presage), υποθέτω (assume, guess, hypothesize, posit, presume, suppose). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשער (approximate, assume, conjecture, suppose), לסבור (believe, deem, mean, opine, reckon, suppose, think), ל� חש (augur, conjecture, divine, estimate, figure out, foretell, guess, predict), �"שער�" (assumption, hypothesis, presumption, speculation, supposition), סבר�" (conjecture, logical argument, opinion, presumption, speculation, supposition, view), � חוש (conjecture, determined, divination, foretelling, guess, prediction, set, shot). (various references)

Hungarian

vélekedés (supposition), feltevés (admittance, assumption, conjecture, guess, guessing, guesswork, hypothesis, speculation, supposition). (various references)

Icelandic

halda (guess, presume, suppose). (various references)

Indonesian

sangkaan (idea, putative), menyangka (suppose). (various references)

Italian

supporre (assume, believe, expect, guess, hypothesise, hypothesize, imagine, judge, mean, opine, postulate, presume, reckon, suppose, suspect, think, to assume, to suspect). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

推察 (conjecture, guess), 憶説 (hypothesis, speculation), 拝察 (infer, sympathize). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいさつ (conjecture, guess), おくせつ (conjecture, hypothesis, speculation), はいさつ (infer, sympathize). (various references)

Manx

tuarym (conjecture, estimation, guess, guesswork, opinion, review, view, viewpoint). (various references)

Papiamen

ideá (guess, presume, suppose). (various references)

Pig Latin

urmisesay

Polish

przypuszczać. (various references)

Portuguese

suspeição (suspicion), suposição (assumption, conjecture, guess, supposition, theory), supor (assume, conjecture, consider, dream, expect, fancy, guess, imagine, make out, presume, see, suppose, think, ween), presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-importance, self-sufficiency, self-support, swagger, swank, vainglory, vanity), fazerdeconta (guess, presume, suppose), desconfiança (diffidence, distrust, jaundice, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, suspicion), conjeturar (conjecture, guess, presume, presuppose, suppose), conjetura (case, conjecture, guess, guesswork, speculation, supposition). (various references)

Romanian

presupunere (assumption, conjecture, guess, idea, if, presumption, speculation, supposition), presupune (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, fancy oneself, feel, imagine, imply, infer, presume, suppose, suspect), ghici (conjecture, discover, divine, feel, foresee, foretell, guess, Rede), conivenţã (conjecture, connivance, guess), bãnuialã (anticipation, apprehension, conjecture, discredit, distrust, doubt, foresight, hunch, idea, inkling, jealousy, mistrust, presumption, supposition, suspicion), bãnui (anticipate, conjecture, distrust, doubt, feel, foreknow, foresee, guess, imagine, mistrust, presume, smoke, sniff, suppose, suspect, think). (various references)

Russian 

предполагать (anticipate, assume, be supposed to, conjecture, expect, guess, imagine, presume, presuming, presuppose, suppose, supposes, supposing, understand), подозревать (have a hunch, misdoubt, smell a rat, suspect, suss). (various references)

Scottish

farbhas (a surmise, noise), babhd (a surmise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pretpostavka (assumption, conjecture, hypothesis, postulation, presumption, supposition), pretpostaviti (assume, connote, hypothesize, presuppose, suppose, suspect, trow), nagađanje (guess, guesswork, sneaking suspicion, supposition). (various references)

Spanish

suponer (entail, expect, guess, involve, mean, presume, presuppose, pretend, say, suppose, trust), asumir (absorb, assimilate, assume, guess, photograph, presume, put on, receive, suppose, take, take on, take over). (various references)

Swedish

förmoda (assume, conjecture, expect, fancy, imagine, presume, reckon, suppose). (various references)

Turkish

sanmak (assume, conjecture, expect, fancy, flatter oneself, guess, imagine, presume, put down, repute, suppose, take, take for, think). (various references)

Ukrainian

висловлювати здогадку, припускати (accept, acknowledge, admit, concede, conjecture, infer, presume, propose, understand), припущення (admission, assumption, calculation, conjecture, guess, hypothesis, inference, perhaps, presumption, presupposition, subaudition, suppose, supposition, theory). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phỏng đoán (conjecture, guess-work), sự ức đoán sự ngờ ngợ. (various references)

Welsh

tyb (assumption, notion, opinion). (various references)

augurabimini, augurandi, augurari, mittere, putare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "surmise": surmised, surmiser, surmisers, surmises. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Surmise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sumie, sumise, summise, sumrise, Suominen, suremise, surmige, surmis, surmiss, surmize, surpise. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: misuser, mussier.

-1 letter: issuer, misers, misuse, musers, remiss, serums, sieurs.

-2 letters: emirs, issue, mires, miser, mises, mures, muser, muses, rimes, rises, risus, ruses, seism, semis, serum, sieur, sires, suers, users.

-3 letters: emir, emus, ires, isms, mess, mire, mirs, mise, miss, mure, muse, muss, reis, rems, rime, rims, rise, rues, rums, ruse, seis, semi, sers, sims, sire.

+1 letter: misrules, misusers, primuses, surmised, surmiser, surmises.

+2 letters: aneurisms, diestrums, marquises, messieurs, misroutes, moistures, murkiness, residuums, resubmits, sensorium, squirmers, sublimers, summaries, summarise, surmisers, trismuses.

+3 letters: antiserums, commissure, costumiers, crumminess, drumfishes, epicurisms, fremituses, grumpiness, impostures, impressure, impureness, microbuses, midsummers, misguiders, mistrusted, moisturise, muscarines, musketries, mysterious, nursemaids, pauperisms, presidiums, puerilisms, reassuming, reimburses, secularism, semigroups, sensoriums, sestertium, simulacres, squirmiest, submarines, submersing, submersion, summarised, summarises, summarizes, summeriest, summiteers, summitries, superfirms, superminds, superminis, superpimps, surrealism, terminuses, voyeurisms.