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inferverb to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and informationhe inferred that she had left because her coat was gone conclude, decide, deduce, derive, extrapolate, gather, judge, make out, reason, understand assume, supposeconjecture, guess, speculate, surmiseconstrue, interpret, readcontemplate, philosophize, rationalize, thinkascertain, dope (out), find out draw a conclusion to convey an idea indirectlythe results infer that there might be a problem with one piece of the equipment allude, hint, imply, indicate, insinuate, intimate, suggest advert, mention, point, refer, signal, signalize, signifysmack (of), smell (of) announce, declare, proclaimelucidate, explain, spell outdelineate, describe infer, deduce, conclude, judge, gather mean to arrive at a mental conclusion.infer implies arriving at a conclusion by reasoning from evidence; if the evidence is slight, the term comes close to surmise.from that remark, I inferred that they knew each other deduce often adds to infer the special implication of drawing a particular inference from a generalization.denied we could deduce anything important from human mortality conclude implies arriving at a necessary inference at the end of a chain of reasoning.concluded that only the accused could be guilty judge stresses a weighing of the evidence on which a conclusion is based.judge people by their actions gather suggests an intuitive forming of a conclusion from implications.gathered their desire to be alone without a word in 1528 |