Word.ws English Dictionary

surmisant

surmisant adjective: aware through having made a surmise; suspecting.

Adjective

surmisant (comparative more surmisant, superlative most surmisant)

  1. Aware through having made a surmise; suspecting.
    • At the well-known pipe of all hands, every one in the least degree surmisant of the brewing mutiny felt in his inmost soul that something was forthcoming most "material to the issue."1838, The Metropolitan, volume 21, page 308

Forms of surmisant

comparativemore surmisant
superlativemost surmisant

Questions about surmisant

What does surmisant mean?
Surmisant means aware through having made a surmise; suspecting.
What part of speech is surmisant?
Surmisant is an adjective.

Words near surmisant in the dictionary

  1. Surmirans
  2. surmisable
  3. surmisably
  4. surmisal
  5. surmisals
  6. surmisant
  7. surmise
  8. surmised
  9. surmisedly
  10. surmiser
  11. surmisers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: surmisant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “surmisant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/surmisant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.