Surmise is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SURMISE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to infer with little evidence
• suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it
• To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
• infer from incomplete evidence
• imagine to be the case or true or probable
• guess (something) from incomplete or uncertain evidence
NOUN:
• a supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it
• guess, conjecture
• A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.
• Reflection; thought.
• a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

Words related to SURMISE

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Words that contain SURMISE

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How to use SURMISE in a sentence

• Fulton assured me that I was mistaken in this hasty surmise.
• It was a year of considerable changes in the company, and any attempt to supply these would be the merest surmise.
• A sudden surmise as to the drift of that last sentence, silenced her.
• What were the feelings of the faithful couple as their eyes wandered to the left of the map, where these huge letters confronted them, we can only surmise.
• Even at that time I flattered myself that I played some part in causing his visits, and it was not long before I learned the correctness of my surmise.
• We were right in our surmise that Sharp Sword did not wish to delay.
• I surmise that this something must be the hull of a ship, and that we have run alongside.
• Indeed, they could only surmise that it had been uttered by the missing woman.
• I have made use of all I know or can surmise logically regarding this strange race.
• Since you have answered correctly twice it must be knowledge and not mere surmise on your part.
• I prefer a topic concerning which it is possible occasionally to make an intelligent surmise at least.
• Nevertheless he wished that fact, rather than surmise, were to be the foundation of their judgments, especially when they spoke of one another.
• If the latter surmise was correct, we might have to wait three or four days before they returned, and that was something which we could not afford to do.
• The surmise goes that Joubert cannot get his men up to the attacking point.
• He had been told that other parties were there also, but he did not surmise that their business was identical.
• Soldiers began to surmise to one another the cause of the delay, which manifestly found its origin in the quarters of the king.
• Since his captors had as yet made no attempt to rob him, he could only surmise that some incredibly foolish mistake had been made.
• These accounts, though exaggerated, are probably a florid version of what occurred and we may surmise that the popular faith of the day was generally victorious.
• He could only surmise that all manliness and spirit had been crushed out of them, and from motives of prudence he forbore to speak of freedom.
• To what extent will follow changes in the political relations of the different classes it is too early yet to surmise.
• What I have next to add is matter for inference and surmise, and is not, strictly speaking, matter of fact.
• The odds are somewhat against them, one may surmise, but they may do considerable injury to their own age notwithstanding.
• Then the inventor verified his surmise that the rocky point was of volcanic origin.
• He had no doubt that it emptied into the river that flowed by Wareville and then by following the stream, if his surmise was right, they could reach home again.
• Lindsey was evidently deep in thought, or, I should perhaps say, in surmise.
• How he had done it, she could not even vaguely surmise.
• How he could have reconciled such an attitude with the instructions he had received from Randolph it is impossible to surmise.
• I surmise that the song in its entirety, including the above elemental groups, is the invention of the singer.
• I did not know what Bates might surmise about Larry, but he accepted my friend in good part, as a guest who would remain indefinitely.
• We may even surmise, and admit, that no attempt ever will be successful.
• With what emotions Breitmann returned to the scene of his triumph, his self-appointed companion could only surmise.
• Lannes must have had some reason that he could not surmise, or he would not have written the letter asking her to meet him at Chastel.

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