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SURMISAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Synonyms:
conjecture; guess; hypothesis; speculation; supposition; surmisal; surmise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("surmisal" is a kind of...):
opinion; view (a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surmisal"):
divination (successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck)
Derivation:
surmise (infer from incomplete evidence)
