daresay
Think it likely
Daresay means to venture to say or suppose—expressing cautious opinion or likelihood: I daresay you're right, I daresay we'll manage.
Almost always appears with "I" and functions as a mild assertion, suggesting something is probably true without claiming certainty.
The word is more common in British than American English and carries a slightly old-fashioned tone.
Accept as true tentatively
- presumeAccept without verification
- assumeAccept as true
- surmiseGuess from incomplete information
- guessEstimate without certainty
reckon · imagine · venture · speculate · hypothesize · conjecture · infer · gather
Expressing uncertainty
- possiblyWith some likelihood
- probablyAlmost certainly true
- likelyHaving good odds
- presumablyTaken as likely true
seemingly · apparently · arguably · conceivably · ostensibly · tentatively · cautiously · guardedly
Declare to be true
- declareState officially
- maintainKeep in condition
- contendStruggle in opposition
- insistAssert with determination
assert · claim · avow · aver · profess · state · venture · submit
Fearless readiness to act
- assuranceFirm promise or certainty
- certaintyTotal absence of doubt
- convictionFirmly held belief
- audacityBrazen, reckless daring
nerve · presumption · temerity · effrontery · chutzpah · gall · impertinence · forwardness
Belonging to earlier times
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
Victorian · formal · literary · genteel · period · classical · traditional · antiquated
suppose
Accept as true tentatively
guess · reckon · imagine · venture · speculate · hypothesize · conjecture · infer · gather · fancy
perhaps
Expressing uncertainty
presumably · seemingly · apparently · arguably · conceivably · ostensibly · tentatively · cautiously · guardedly · provisionally
affirm
Declare to be true
insist · assert · claim · avow · aver · profess · state · venture · submit · opine
boldness
Fearless readiness to act
- assuranceFirm promise or certainty
- certaintyTotal absence of doubt
- convictionFirmly held belief
audacity · nerve · presumption · temerity · effrontery · chutzpah · gall · impertinence · forwardness · brashness
archaic
Belonging to earlier times
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
Edwardian · Victorian · formal · literary · genteel · period · classical · traditional · antiquated · bygone
daresayprove
Establish as fact
demonstrate · establish · substantiate · verify · confirm