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Infer

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intransitive verb. To conclude from evidence or by reasoning.

intransitive verb. To involve by logical necessity; entail.

intransitive verb. To indicate indirectly; imply.

intransitive verb. To draw inferences.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To bring in, on, or about; lead forward or advance; adduce.

To form as an opinion or belief in consequence of something else observed or believed; derive as a fact or consequence, by reasoning of any kind; accept from evidence or premises; conclude.

To bear presumption or proof of; imply.

To conclude; reach a conclusion by reasoning.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

transitive verb. To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

transitive verb. To offer, as violence.

transitive verb. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To show; to manifest; to prove.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

verb. To show; to manifest; to prove.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

verb. draw from specific cases for more general cases

verb. reason by deduction; establish by deduction

verb. guess correctly; solve by guessing

verb. conclude by reasoning; in logic

verb. believe to be the case

Word Usage

"Who decides whether it's acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition or to use the word "infer" as a synonym for "imply"?"

cross-reference

indicate mean

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

believe conclude reason reason out

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Burr Fleur Fur Kerr Monsieur

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

adduce allege allegorize allude to analyze

variant

inferred inferring

verb-form

infered inferred inferring infers