The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.
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Surmise
//sɜːˈmaɪz//
Synonyms for "surmise" (158 found)
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Strong matches (47)
Related words (79)
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provisionally acceptreckonregardreputerisk assumingrough guesssaysenseset down asset of postulatesshotspeculatestabsupposalsupposesupposingsuppositionsuspiciontaketake fortake for grantedtake ittake to betheorizetheorythesisthinktrowunderstandunderstandingunverified suppositionventure a guessview asweenwild guessworking hypothesis
Noun(11 words)
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4 entriesderived
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
14 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- догадка noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- предположение noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- предполагам verb (to imagine or suspect)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 推測 /推测 noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
Czech
4 entries- dohad noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- domněnka noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- hypotéza noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- domnívat se verb (to imagine or suspect)
Dutch
3 entries- vermoeden noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- gissen verb (to imagine or suspect)
- vermoeden verb (to imagine or suspect)
Finnish
4 entries- ajatus noun (Reflection; thought; posit)
- ennakkoluulo noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- oletus noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- otaksuma noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
French
3 entries- présumer verb (to imagine or suspect)
- supposer verb (to imagine or suspect)
- suspecter verb (to imagine or suspect)
German
4 entries- Mutmaßung noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- Vermutung noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- annehmen verb (to imagine or suspect)
- mutmaßen verb (to imagine or suspect)
Hungarian
4 entries- feltevés noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- feltételezés noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- sejtés noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- feltételez verb (to imagine or suspect)
Italian
1 entries- supporre verb (to imagine or suspect)
Japanese
1 entries- 推測する verb (to imagine or suspect)
Māori
1 entries- māharahara verb (to imagine or suspect)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- formode verb (to imagine or suspect)
- gjette verb (to imagine or suspect)
Persian
4 entries- اندیشه noun (Reflection; thought; posit)
- انگاشت noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- بازتاب noun (Reflection; thought; posit)
- پندار noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
Polish
3 entries- domysł noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- domyślać się verb (to imagine or suspect)
- domyślić się verb (to imagine or suspect)
Portuguese
3 entries- imaginação noun (Reflection; thought; posit)
- suspeita noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- suspeitar verb (to imagine or suspect)
Russian
4 entries- до́мысел noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- подозре́ние noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- предположе́ние noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- подозревать verb (to imagine or suspect)
Slovak
2 entries- domnienka noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
- hypotéza noun (thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence)
Spanish
3 entries- conjeturar verb (to imagine or suspect)
- presumir verb (to imagine or suspect)
- suponer verb (to imagine or suspect)
Swedish
2 entries- förmoda verb (to imagine or suspect)
- gissa verb (to imagine or suspect)
Ukrainian
2 entries- припуска́ти verb (to imagine or suspect)
- припусти́ти verb (to imagine or suspect)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible.
Source: tatoeba (6957580)
"What do you think of my theory?" "It is all surmise."
Source: tatoeba (6976441)
We see in nature the cycling or spiralling of things. Subsequently, we can surmise that a being may have such cycling or spiralling of life and death by some element, soul or consciousness stream, of that being. My father, before his death, told me that he would be reborn through "mind" transmigration in a new body, a baby, in a different world, "planet," he clarified. There, he would live a new life. Everywhere in nature, there is cycling or spiralling.
Source: tatoeba (10564039)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.