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