v. t. | 1. | |
1. | To bring on; to induce; to occasion. | |
2. | To offer, as violence. | |
3. | To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. | |
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; | |
5. | To show; to manifest; to prove. |
Verb | 1. | infer - reason by deduction; establish by deduction |
2. | infer - draw from specific cases for more general cases | |
3. | infer - conclude by reasoning; in logic Synonyms: deduce | |
4. | infer - guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize" Synonyms: guess | |
5. | infer - believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" Synonyms: understand |