SURMISAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surmisal mean? 

• SURMISAL (noun)
  The noun SURMISAL has 1 sense:

1. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

  Familiarity information: SURMISAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURMISAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

conjecture; guess; hypothesis; speculation; supposition; surmisal; surmise

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)