surmise

surmise is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.
2. noun. Reflection; thought.
3. transitive verb. To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
4. noun. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

   Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal

5. verb. infer from incomplete evidence
6. verb. imagine to be the case or true or probable

   "I suspect he is a fugitive"

   "I surmised that the butler did it"

   Synonyms: suspect

Synonyms

conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, suspect

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in surmise:

misuser, mussier

Common word forms

surmised, surmiser, surmises, surmising

Words from these letters

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