'Infer' definitions:
Definition of 'infer'
From: WordNet
verb
verb
verb
Conclude by reasoning; in logic [syn: deduce, infer]
verb
Guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize" [syn: guess, infer]
verb
Believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" [syn: understand, infer]
Definition of 'Infer'
From: GCIDE
- Infer \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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. [1913 Webster]
- To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- Such opportunities always infer obligations. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first. --Sir T. More. [1913 Webster]
- This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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