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

Despite the middling score in the economic category, WalletHub’s analysis surmised that Fremont’s happiness is bolstered by its high share (nearly 80%) of households with an income above $75,000. — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026

One rival executive who has spoken with Preller recently surmised that the initial ask would be at least two top-100 prospects. — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 23 July 2026

Authorities surmised that the robbers most likely broke the diamond down into smaller pieces and sold it on the black market. — Moises Mendez Ii, InStyle, 22 July 2026

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