Synonyms of the word

surmise

• n. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
• n. Reflection; thought; posit.
• v. To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

conjecture

• n. (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
• n. (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
• n. (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not…
• n. (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
• v. (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

deduce

• v. (transitive) To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
• v. (obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lead forth.

deduct

• v. To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.

derive

• v. (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
• v. (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
• v. (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
• v. To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.

guess

• v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
• v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

hazard

• n. (historical) A type of game played with dice.
• n. Chance.
• n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
• n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
• n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
• n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing…
• n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
• v. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
• v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

hypothesis

• n. (sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem…
• n. (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
• n. (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.

infer

• v. (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction,…
• v. (transitive) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially…
• v. (obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone.
• v. (obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in.

opinion

• n. A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
• n. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
• n. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
• n. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
• n. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially…
• n. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.

pretend

• v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
• v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
• v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
• v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

speculation

• n. The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
• n. (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
• n. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
• n. (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal…
• n. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price,…
• n. Examination by the eye; view.
• n. (obsolete) Power of sight.
• n. A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting…

supposition

• n. Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
• n. The act or an instance of supposing.

surmisal

• n. surmise.

suspect

• v. (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
• v. (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.
• v. (intransitive) To have suspicion.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
• n. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
• adj. Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
• adj. (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.

venture

• n. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
• n. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
• n. The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
• v. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
• v. (transitive) To risk or offer.
• v. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on.
• v. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
• v. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
• v. (transitive) To say something.

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.