surmise
Pronunciation: /sɜːˈmaɪz/
The English word “surmise” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
- Reflection; thought; posit.
verb
- To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
Etymology
From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).
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