infer
Meaning of infer
verb
- 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.
- Languages in which infer is used:
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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:
Meaning generalize:
Meaning guess:
Meaning understand:
Meaning think, understand, and form judgements logically:
Meaning arrive at a judgement or opinion by reasoning:
Meaning form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information:
Meaning suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it:
Meaning form a theory or theories about something:
Meaning put (something) forward as a hypothesis:
Meaning infer; understand:
Meaning suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability:
Meaning suppose to be the case, without proof:
Meaning obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty:
Meaning establish by calculation:
Meaning think, consider, or expect to be the case:
Meaning realize or grasp (something):
Meaning bring or gather together (a number of things):
Translation of infer
- Spanish: imaginar, deducir, inferir, argüir
- French: déduire, inférer
- Portuguese: inferir, chegar, deduzir
- German: folgern, ableiten
- Italian: dedurre, inferire
Anagrams of infer
Words that rhyme with infer
granfer, coinfer, misinfer, preinfer, reinfer, subinfer, superinfer, confer, misconfer, preconfer, reconfer
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