If you see empty ice cream containers on the table, sprinkles littering the ground, and a can of whipped cream in the trash, you can surmise what happened: someone made sundaes. To surmise is to form an opinion or make a guess about something.
A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess;
Noun
a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Verb
infer from incomplete evidence
Verb
imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
n.
A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon
feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of
jealousy or of envy.
n.
Reflection; thought.
v. t.
To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on
slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
Surmise
[We] double honor gain From his surmise proved false.
No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practicies contradict his profession; not upon small surmises.2.
Surmise
It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true.
This change was not wrought by altering the form or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it.
A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess;
To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
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