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Infer

Infer Meaning & Definition
Infer Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Infer?

[v] believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"
[v] guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"
[v] reason by deduction; establish by deduction
[v] conclude by reasoning; in logic
[v] draw from specific cases for more general cases

Synonyms | Synonyms for Infer: deduce | deduce | deduct | derive | extrapolate | gather | generalise | generalize | guess | understand

Related Terms | Find terms related to Infer: allegorize | allude to | analyze | apply reason | assume | be afraid | believe | bring to mind | collect | conceive | conclude | connote | consider | daresay | deduce | deduct | deem | derive | divine | dope | draw | draw a conclusion | draw an inference | dream | entail | expect | extract | fancy | feel | fetch | find | gather | generalize | glean | grant | guess | hint | hypothesize | imagine | implicate | imply | import | induce | insinuate | intellectualize | intimate | involve | let | let be | logicalize | logicize | mean | mean to say | opine | philosophize | point indirectly to | prefigure | presume | presuppose | presurmise | provide a rationale | provisionally accept | rationalize | reason | reason that | reckon | repute | say | suggest | suppose | surmise | suspect | syllogize | synthesize | take | take as proved | take for | take for granted | take it | take to be | theorize | think | understand | use reason

See Also | believe | carry back | conclude | conclude | elicit | extrapolate | figure out | lick | overgeneralise | overgeneralize | puzzle out | reason | reason | reason out | reason out | solve | surmise | tell | universalise | universalize | work | work out

Infer In Webster's Dictionary

\In*fer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inferred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inferring}.] [L. inferre to bring into, bring forward, occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf. F. inf['e]rer. See 1 st {Bear}.] 1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] --Harvey. 2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. [Obs.] Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force. --Shak. 4. To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true. --Locke. Such opportunities always infer obligations. --Atterbury. 5. To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.] The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first. --Sir T. More. This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. --Shak.

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