Infer

Definition of Infer

In`fer´

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Inferred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inferring.]
	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. 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; 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. 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.

Related Words

allegorize, allude to, analyze, apply reason, assume, be afraid, believe, bring to mind, collect, conceive, conclude, connote, consider, daresay, deduct, deem, derive, divine, dope, draw, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, dream, entail, expect, extract, fancy, feel, fetch, find, gather, generalize, glean, grant, guess, hint, hypothesize, imagine, implicate, imply, import, induce, insinuate, intellectualize, intimate, involve, let, let be, logicalize, logicize, mean, mean to say, opine, philosophize, point indirectly to, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, provide a rationale, provisionally accept, rationalize, reason, reason that, reckon, repute, say, suggest, suppose, surmise, suspect, syllogize, synthesize, take, take as proved, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, theorize, think, use reason

Browse

Infect
Infecter
Infectible
Infection
Infectious
Infectious disease
Infectiously
Infectiousness
Infective
Infecund
Infecundity
Infecundous
Infeeble
Infelicitous
Infelicity
Infelonious
Infelt
Infeodation
Infeoff
Infeoffment
-Infer-
Inferable
Inference
Inferential
Inferentially
Inferiae
Inferior
Inferior court
Inferior letter
Inferior tide
Inferiority
Inferiorly
Infernal
Infernal machine
Infernal stone
Infernally
Inferno
Inferobranchian
Inferobranchiata
Inferobranchiate
Inferrible

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

© 2009 Interapple, Inc. Cover