INFERRED

INFER

understand, infer

(verb) believe to be the case; “I understand you have no previous experience?”

guess, infer

(verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing; “He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize”

deduce, infer, deduct, derive

(verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction

deduce, infer

(verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic

generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer

(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

inferred

simple past tense and past participle of infer

Source: Wiktionary

INFER

In*fer", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inferred; p. pr. & vb. n. Inferring.] Etym: [L. inferre to bring into, bring forward, occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf. F. inférer. See 1 st Bear.]

1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] Harvey.

2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. [Obs.] Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force. Shak.

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; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true. Locke. Such opportunities always infer obligations. Atterbury.

5. To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.] The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first. Sir T. More. This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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