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Distrust vs Surmise - What's the difference?

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Distrust is a related term of surmise.


As verbs the difference between distrust and surmise

is that distrust is to put no trust in; to have no confidence in while surmise is .

As a noun distrust

is lack of trust or confidence.

distrust

English

Noun

(-)
  • Lack of trust or confidence.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * distrustful

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.

    • Derived terms

    * distruster

    surmise

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
    • surmises of jealousy or of envy
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises .
  • * 1919 ,
    • The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.
  • Reflection; thought; posit.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

    (surmis)
  • To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

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