Crossword-Solution: SURMISE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Surmise | n. | A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. |
| Surmise | n. | Reflection; thought. |
| Surmise | v. t. | To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SURMISE | anagram | MISUSER, MUSSIER |
We have 23 clues for the answer “SURMISE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Supposition, guess | 1 answer |
| Guess to be true | 1 answer |
| "Looked at each other with a wild ___."—Keats. | 1 answer |
| Deduce | 20 answers |
| Hearsay | 21 answers |
| "...___ speculation..." | 23 answers |
| inference | 28 answers |
| Infer | 31 answers |
| Suppose | 32 answers |
| apply logic | 32 answers |
| hypothesis | 41 answers |
| Conjecture | 42 answers |
| Reckon | 45 answers |
| Suspect | 46 answers |
| Believe | 48 answers |
| assumption | 51 answers |
| __ guess | 55 answers |
| Imagine | 55 answers |
| speculate | 58 answers |
| presume | 65 answers |
| Assess | 68 answers |
| Assume | 70 answers |
| Opinion | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SURMISE (5)
Are they true, are they false? I know not and bridle my tongue for fear, Fluttered with vague surmise; nor present nor future is clear.
The sainted minister in the church! The woman of the scarlet letter in the market-place! What imagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise that the same scorching stigma was on them both! XXIII.
They have long ago convinced the world—on surmise and without trustworthy evidence—that Shallow _is_ Sir Thomas.
Later, I learned that my surmise was correct, and this was but one of a great chain of similar posts that dotted the new frontier of the black nation into whose hands I had fallen.
Knightley soon afterwards made to “What does Weston think of the weather; shall we have rain?” convinced her that he had nothing more to say or surmise about Hartfield.
Quotes with SURMISE (3)
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red Hell His sightless soul may stray.
I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1942–2022).