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Surmise

A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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Deduce 76% connected

To lead forth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deduct 76% connected

To lead forth or out.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derive 76% connected

To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Guess 76% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hazard 76% connected

A game of chance played with dice.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Infer 76% connected

To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Opinion 76% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pretend 76% connected

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Venture 76% connected

An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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View 76% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 1

Divination 76% connected

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 8

Hypothesis 74% connected

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hypothesis 74% connected

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Speculate 74% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Speculate 74% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Suspicion 74% connected

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very sl…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Suspicion 74% connected

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very sl…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 7

Conjecture 92% connected

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Guess 92% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hypothesis 92% connected

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Speculation 92% connected

The act of speculating.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Supposition 92% connected

The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Surmisal 92% connected

Surmise.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suspect 92% connected

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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