Infer - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ɪnˈfɜːr|
Brit.
|ɪnˈfɜː|
verb
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction (syn: deduce, deduct, derive)
- draw from specific cases for more general cases (syn: extrapolate, generalize)
- conclude by reasoning; in logic (syn: deduce)
- guess correctly; solve by guessing (syn: guess)
- believe to be the case (syn: understand)
- draw from specific cases for more general cases (syn: extrapolate, generalize)
- conclude by reasoning; in logic (syn: deduce)
- guess correctly; solve by guessing (syn: guess)
- believe to be the case (syn: understand)
Extra examples
It's difficult to infer how these changes will affect ordinary citizens.
Are you inferring that I'm wrong?
A lot can be inferred from these statistics.
From the evidence we can infer that the victim knew her killer.
What do you infer from the voting figures?
... I infer that Swinburne found an adequate outlet for the creative impulse in his poetry ...
Word forms
verb
I/you/we/they: infer
he/she/it: infers
present participle: inferring
past tense: inferred
past participle: inferred
I/you/we/they: infer
he/she/it: infers
present participle: inferring
past tense: inferred
past participle: inferred
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