Associations to the word «Surmising»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

SURMISE, noun. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
SURMISE, verb. Infer from incomplete evidence.
SURMISE, verb. Imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn