Synonyms of surmised

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adjective

as in guessed

Related Words

• guessed
• assumed
• presumed
• alleged
• suspected
• conjectured
• justifiable
• excusable
• warrantable
• defensible
• vindicable
• demonstrable
• well-founded
• provable
• documentable
• verifiable
• certifiable
• empirical
• checkable
• confirmable
• supportable
• sustainable

Dissimilar Words

• unsustainable
• unverifiable
• unprovable
• debatable
• unsupportable
• insupportable
• indemonstrable
• disputable
• refutable
• disprovable

surmised

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verb

past tense of surmise

as in assumed

to form an opinion from little or no evidence

we surmised that she had purchased the apple pie since there was a bakery box on the kitchen counter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guessed
• assumed
• thought
• suspected
• supposed
• speculated
• presumed
• imagined
• conjectured
• believed
• suspicioned
• concluded
• deduced
• inferred
• expected
• daresaid
• hypothesized
• theorized
• gathered
• conceived
• reckoned
• judged
• hypothecated
• took

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• established
• demonstrated
• proved
• documented
• determined
• learned
• ascertained
• validated
• substantiated
• found out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of surmised

Verb

The memo, the blog surmised, gave reservation agents the flexibility to accommodate customers who no longer wanted to fly into the South Florida airport. — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

The group’s letter surmised that blanket applications of tariffs across the 60 economies in question would fail to comply with Section 301’s statutory framework, which calls for economy-specific analysis. — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 9 July 2026

In that light, Judge Rovner surmised that in some cases a job is just a job. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 July 2026

Darryn Peterson walked down an aisle at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a camera following his every step, when the national broadcast surmised that he must be ticked. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026

But everyone has surmised all that information came out of her relationship with Vrabel. — Armando Salguero, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026

Patience tends to be a virtue with Fukada’s cinema, and it’s certainly required upfront, as the film takes its time in unraveling key connections between characters, while the nature of certain relationships must be surmised through cues of expression and body language. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 May 2026

Indeed, the writers surmised that the rocket engineer was so clearly the USSR's MVP that — had Korolev survived the botched medical procedure that killed him — the Soviet space program would have continued to outpace its American counterpart. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 May 2026

This could be surmised as experimental evidence for the physical mechanism of the materials. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026