Surmise

Noun

 * 1) Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, surmises of jealousy or of envy.
 * 2) Reflection; thought; posit.

Verb

 * 1) To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

Adjectives for Surmise
false; intellectual; vague; anxious; wide; wild.

Verbs for Surmise
advance—; concede—; denounce—; form—; grant—; hazard—; offer—; refute—; resort to—; speculate on—; submit—; —alleges; —alludes to; —assumes; —coincides with; —conjectures; —hints; —postulates; —presumes; —presupposes; —suggests; —theorizes.

Adverbs for Surmise
shrewdly; intuitively; rationally; slyly; astutely; vaguely; anxiously; pessimistically; jealously; enviously.

Thesaurus
account as, assume, assumption, axiom, be afraid, believe, blind guess, bold conjecture, conceive, conclude, conclusion, conjecture, consider, daresay, deduce, deem, divine, dream, esteem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel, feeling, gather, grant, guess, guesswork, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, hunch, hypothesis, hypothesize, imagine, infer, inference, judge, let, let be, look upon as, maintain, notion, opine, perhaps, postulate, postulation, postulatum, prefigure, premise, presume, presumption, presupposal, presuppose, presupposition, presurmise, pretend, proposition, provisionally accept, reckon, regard, repute, risk assuming, rough guess, say, sense, set down as, set of postulates, shot, speculate, speculation, stab, supposal, suppose, supposing, supposition, suspect, suspicion, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, theorize, theory, thesis, think, trow, understand, understanding, unverified supposition, venture a guess, view as, ween, wild guess, working hypothesis

Etymology
From surmis:, past participle of surmetre: from sur-: + metre:.

Noun

 * Russian: подозрение, предположение


 * German: Vermutung, Mutmaßung

Verb

 * German: ,
 * Italian:


 * Spanish: suponer, conjetar, presumir

Anagrams

 * mûrisse