surmise
Meaning
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- Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
- Reflection; thought; posit.
Synonyms
speculation
speculate
make a conjecture
be suspicious
have an opinion
Frequency
Hyphenated as
sur‧mise
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sɜːˈmaɪz/
Etymology
From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).
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