Definition of infer

"infer" in the verb sense

1. deduce, infer, deduct, derive

reason by deduction establish by deduction

2. generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer

draw from specific cases for more general cases

3. deduce, infer

conclude by reasoning in logic

4. guess, infer

guess correctly solve by guessing

"He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"

5. understand, infer

believe to be the case

"I understand you have no previous experience?"

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Quotations for infer

From a single instance you may infer the whole.

From what has happened we may infer what may happen.

In public affairs, we may usually infer the weakness of the cause by the excessive price that ministers have freely paid to those whose eloquence, or whose sophistry, has enabled them to make that weakness triumph. [ Colton ]

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]

infer in Scrabble®

The word infer is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters infer:

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The word infer is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Word Growth involving infer

Shorter words in infer

in

Longer words containing infer

inference inferences

inferential inferentially

inferior anteroinferior anteroinferiorly

inferior costoinferior

inferior inferiorities

inferior inferiority

inferior inferiorly anteroinferiorly

inferior inferiors

infernal infernally

inferno

inferomedial inferomedially

inferred

inferring

infers

infertile

infertility