Surmised vs Presumed - What's the difference?
surmised | presumed |
(surmise)
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1919 ,
Reflection; thought; posit.
To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.
(presume)
appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
As verbs the difference between surmised and presumed
is that surmised is past tense of surmise while presumed is past tense of presume.As an adjective presumed is
appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.surmised
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Verb
(head)surmise
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Noun
(en noun)- surmises of jealousy or of envy
- No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises .
- 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.
- (Shakespeare)