Infer synonyms
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Part of speech:
To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of something, such as labor.
To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
Gather is defined as to bring or come together in one place.
To reach (a destination)
Speculate is to buy or sell land or other investments that are high risk, with the goal to make a very big profit.
To reach (a conclusion) by reasoning.
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hint (related)
To hint is defined as to suggest something.
To judge or conclude by conjecture; guess:
To make a supposition; suppose or believe:
read-between-the-lines
(Idiomatic) to infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly
With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission. [from 14th c.]
To express or otherwise convey (a thought, for example) in an indirect or insidious way.
mean to say
To imply
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To reason is to think things through, to use logic, or to try to solve a problem with logic.
To suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted
To mention as something to think over, act on, etc.; bring to the mind for consideration
To act as one appointed to decide the winners of:
To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
To understand or explain the meaning of (something), especially in a particular way; interpret:
Reckon is something you believe or decide after thinking about it for a while.
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understand (related)
Understand is defined as to know the meaning of something or to grasp the situation.
Specific or direct:
Of, or having the nature of, an illation; inferential
Derived or capable of being derived by inference.
The definition of putative refers to something commonly accepted as true or thought by most to be true.
A final arrangement or settlement, as of a treaty.
A statement that follows with little or no proof required from an already proven statement. For example, it is a theorem in geometry that the angles opposite two congruent sides of a triangle are also congruent. A corollary to that statement is that an equilateral triangle is also equiangular.
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The act of drawing a conclusion or making an inference
(Countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
To examine or go through (books, etc.) so as to collect certain information
To make an estimate or conjecture:
To have as a necessary part, condition, or effect; contain, include, or involve naturally or necessarily
To bring out the meaning of; esp., to give one's own conception of (a work of art), as in performance or criticism
To make a judgment about (something) without sufficient evidence; guess:
misunderstand (antonym)
To understand incorrectly, while thinking one has understood correctly.
misconceive (antonym)
To conceive wrongly; interpret incorrectly; misunderstand
To derive by deduction; deduce.
To pour forth liquid:
opinion (related)
(Archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
To trace from or to a source; show the derivation of
To reduce to a general form, class, or law.
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Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of generalize.
come to the conclusion that
To reach a conclusion
draw the inference that
To reach a conclusion
To arrive at (conclusions or results) by hypothesizing from known facts or observations
discern (related)
be-distinguished (related)
postulate (related)
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distinguish (related)
dissociate (related)
ascribe (related)
Synonym Study
- Gather is an informal substitute for infer or conclude I gather that you don't care
- Judge stresses the careful checking and weighing of premises, etc. in arriving at a conclusion
- Conclude strictly implies an inference that is the final logical result in a process of reasoning I must, therefore, conclude that you are wrong
- Deduce , in strict discrimination, implies inference from a general principle by logical reasoning the method was deduced from earlier experiments
- Infer suggests the arriving at a decision or opinion by reasoning from known facts or evidence from your smile, I infer that you're pleased
Find another word for infer. In this page you can discover 59 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for infer, like: induce, conclude, gather, indicate, arrive at, speculate, deduce, hint, conjecture, assume and read-between-the-lines.
