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单词 surmising
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surmise

1 of 2

noun

sur·​mise sər-ˈmīz How to pronounce surmise (audio)
ˈsər-ˌmīz
: a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture

surmise

2 of 2

verb

sur·​mise sər-ˈmīz How to pronounce surmise (audio)
surmised; surmising

transitive verb

: to form a notion of from scanty evidence : imagine, infer

Synonyms

Noun

  • conjecture
  • guess
  • shot
  • supposition

Verb

  • assume
  • conjecture
  • daresay
  • guess
  • imagine
  • presume
  • speculate
  • suppose
  • suspect
  • suspicion [chiefly dialect]
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Example Sentences

Noun my surmise is that the couple's “good news” is the announcement that they are going to have a baby Verb We can only surmise what happened. He must have surmised that I was not interested.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Instead, Rodrigues and Ohlrogge surmise, the glut of retail investors are probably not showing up for the vote. Scott Nover, Quartz, 7 Sep. 2022 More plausible, Bierson and his team surmise, is a scenario in which Pluto formed over a mere 30,000 years as rocks, just a few inches wide and drawn in towards the planet by its own gravity, pelted the nascent world’s surface. Popular Science, 29 June 2020 Scientists cite several layers of evidence to support their surmises. Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2020 To make sense of a correspondence, however complete or incomplete, is to constellate fragmentary evidence, and make surmises about what is missing (including what may not have been apparent to the letter-writers themselves). Langdon Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020 Entertaining those that remained into Monday morning, of course, with enough crazy choreography to make any festival-goer surmise that those hand-out sandwiches may well have been dosed. Gary Graff, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2019 The wild surmise of his design sketches beguiled virtually all who saw them. Bill Wyman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020 His surmise that official Washington is less enamored of his border wall than are the participants at his campaign rallies is correct. James Freeman, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020 Though there’s no micro-level evidence on savings rates to check this against, cautions Schmelzing, this surmise is consistent with narrative accounts and research on longer-term wealth evolution. Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2020
Verb
The reasons are hard to pin down but easy to surmise. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2022 Never mind that singular dynamic, though, or the pressure that an outsider might surmise would await any Maddow successor, given that MSNBC’s ratings for the 9 PM hour nosedived after Maddow curtailed her schedule earlier this year. Andy Meek, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022 Based on previous studies, the researchers surmise that imagining a series of movements as realistically as possible recruited the same parts of the brain and activated the same signaling pathways in the spine as the real action would have. Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 8 July 2021 Western military observers surmise that Ukraine’s strategy is to draw as many Russian troops as possible into Kherson to defend it, cut off their paths of exit and wear them down. Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022 That special substrate, the researchers surmise, helped revive the pig organs. Wired, 5 Aug. 2022 Smithsonian archaeologists surmise it may have been pulled from the ground five or six miles away from Kanjera South. Kovie Biakolo, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2022 Given the correlation between changes in the cortisol-producing gene and the more ancient dog group’s lesser social-cognitive abilities, the authors surmise that lower stress levels likely played a role in dog domestication. Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 9 June 2022 But recent downturns in the crypto markets have mimicked those in the traditional financial markets, leading many analysts to surmise that corporate and institutional investment in crypto has linked the two markets. Scott Nover, Quartz, 31 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, allegation, charge, from Anglo-French, from feminine of surmis, past participle of surmettre to place on, suppose, accuse, from Medieval Latin supermittere, from Late Latin, to place on, from Latin super- + mittere to let go, send

Verb

Middle English, to allege, from surmise, noun

First Known Use

Noun

1569, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1647, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

surmise 1 of 2

noun

sur·​mise sər-ˈmīz How to pronounce surmise (audio)
: a thought or idea based on very little evidence : guess

surmise

2 of 2

verb

surmised; surmising
: to form an idea on very little evidence : guess

surmising

verb

present participle of surmise
as in guessing
to form an opinion from little or no evidence we surmised that she had purchased the apple pie since there was a bakery box on the kitchen counter

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • guessing
  • assuming
  • speculating
  • supposing
  • suspecting
  • thinking
  • presuming
  • conjecturing
  • imagining
  • believing
  • inferring
  • suspicioning
  • deducing
  • concluding
  • hypothesizing
  • theorizing
  • daresaying
  • expecting
  • gathering
  • judging
  • reckoning
  • conceiving
  • hypothecating
  • taking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • proving
  • demonstrating
  • validating
  • documenting
  • establishing
  • ascertaining
  • determining
  • learning
  • substantiating
  • finding out
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