infer

Meaning of infer

verb
  1. deduce or conclude (something) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
    from these facts we can infer that crime has been increasing

late 15th century (in the sense ‘bring about, inflict’): from Latin inferre ‘bring in, bring about’ (in medieval Latin ‘deduce’), from in- ‘into’ + ferre ‘bring’.

Information about infer

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of infer is: infers.
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Hyphenation of infer

in-fer

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
  • infer is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

infer synonyms

Meaning deduce:

deduce, deduct, derive

Meaning generalize:

generalize, extrapolate

Meaning guess:

guess

Meaning understand:

understand

Meaning think, understand, and form judgements logically:

reason

Meaning arrive at a judgement or opinion by reasoning:

conclude

Meaning form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information:

conjecture

Meaning suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it:

surmise

Meaning form a theory or theories about something:

theorize

Meaning put (something) forward as a hypothesis:

hypothesize

Meaning infer; understand:

gather

Meaning suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability:

presume

Meaning suppose to be the case, without proof:

assume

Meaning obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty:

glean

Meaning establish by calculation:

reckon

Meaning think, consider, or expect to be the case:

figure

Meaning realize or grasp (something):

suss

Meaning bring or gather together (a number of things):

collect

Translation of infer

Anagrams of infer

Finer, finer

Words that rhyme with infer

granfer, coinfer, misinfer, preinfer, reinfer, subinfer, superinfer, confer, misconfer, preconfer, reconfer

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