Word Meanings - SURMISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
surmis, to impose, accuse; sur + mettre to put, set, L. 1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. double honor gain From his surmise proved
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surmis, to impose, accuse; sur + mettre to put, set, L. 1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. double honor gain From his surmise proved false. Milton. No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practicies contradict his profession; not upon small surmises. Swift. 2. Reflection; thought. Shak. Syn. -- Conjecture; supposition; suspicion; doubt.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SURMISE)
- Conjecture guest
- divination
- hypothesis
- theory
- notion
- surmise
- supposition
- Guess
- Conjecture
- divine
- suppose
- suspect
- fancy
- imagine
- Imagine
- Conceive
- Surmise
- understand
- fabricate
- deem
- presume
- think
- apprehend
- Opine
- Think
- believe
- conjecture
- judge
- Presuppose
- Presume
- assume
- postulate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SURMISE)
Related words: (words related to SURMISE)
- THINKING
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv. - OPINER
One who opines. Jer. Taylor. - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - SURMISE
surmis, to impose, accuse; sur + mettre to put, set, L. 1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. double honor gain From his surmise proved - COMPUTATION
1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate; - CONJECTURER
One who conjectures. Hobbes. - UNDERSTANDINGLY
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. - APPREHEND
of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with - POSTULATE
The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem. The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while - IMAGINE
1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. 2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to - THINK
confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem, - ASSUMEDLY
By assumption. - SUSPECTLESS
1. Not suspecting; having no suspicion. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Not suspected; not mistrusted. Beau. & Fl. - PROOF-PROOF
Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley. - FANCYWORK
Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc. - NOTIONATE
Notional. - DIVINER
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one - ASSUMER
One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney. - CALCULATION
1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. 2. An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of - FOREGUESS
To conjecture. - MISJUDGE
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue. - MISCOMPUTATION
Erroneous computation; false reckoning. - SELF-REPROOF
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. - VORTEX THEORY
The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. - HIGH-PROOF
1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak. - PREJUDGE
To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a - MISTHINK
To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - INFABRICATED
Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural. - FOREJUDGER
A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - PLOT-PROOF
Secure against harm by plots. Shak. - DINGDONG THEORY
The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first