surmise

«surmise» in Mova's school dictionary: to guess something from clues, without being sure — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (surmise, surmises, surmised, surmising); noun (a surmise)

meaning for a pupil

1) To surmise is to guess something from clues, without being sure. tree →

2) A surmise is a guess of this kind. (formal, old use) tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories someone works out a likely answer from what they can see; the word is more formal than «guess»

examples

• I can only surmise why the door was locked. tree →
• I surmise that the stranger is lost. tree →
• Her surmise turned out to be right. tree →
• It was no more than a surmise. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «surmise» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.