Synonyms of the word infer


INFERBELIEVE - CONCLUDE - DEDUCE - DEDUCT - DERIVE - EXTRAPOLATE - GENERALISE - GENERALIZE - GUESS - LICK - REASON - SOLVE - UNDERSTAND - WORK

infer

  • v. (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction,…
  • v. (transitive) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially…
  • v. (obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone.
  • v. (obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in.

believe

  • v. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
  • v. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
  • v. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

conclude

  • v. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
  • v. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
  • v. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
  • v. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
  • v. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
  • v. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
  • v. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
  • v. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation).

deduce

  • v. (transitive) To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
  • v. (obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lead forth.

deduct

  • v. To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.

derive

  • v. (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
  • v. (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
  • v. (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
  • v. (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
  • v. To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.

extrapolate

  • v. (transitive) To infer by extending known information.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within…

generalise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of generalize.

generalize

  • v. To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
  • v. To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
  • v. To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
  • v. To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.

guess

  • v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
  • v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
  • v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
  • v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
  • n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

lick

  • n. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
  • n. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
  • n. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts…
  • n. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
  • n. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
  • n. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
  • n. (colloquial) A bit.
  • n. (music) A short motif.
  • n. Speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.).
  • v. To stroke with the tongue.
  • v. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
  • v. (colloquial) To overcome.
  • v. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • v. (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • v. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
  • v. To lap; to take in with the tongue.

reason

  • n. A cause.
  • n. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception,…
  • n. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
  • n. (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.
  • v. (intransitive) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process…
  • v. (intransitive) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute;…
  • v. (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to…
  • v. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
  • v. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
  • v. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
  • v. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

solve

  • v. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
  • v. (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
  • v. (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen…
  • n. (obsolete) A solution; an explanation.

understand

  • v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
  • v. To believe, based on information.
  • v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
  • v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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