infer

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=fer

CIDE DICTIONARY

infer, v. t. [L. inferre to bring into, bring forward, occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf. F. inférer. See 1 st Bear.].

•  To bring on; to induce; to occasion.  Harvey.  [1913 Webster]
•  To offer, as violence.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
•  To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.  [1913 Webster]

  "Full well hath Clifford played the orator,
  Inferring arguments of mighty force."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true."  [1913 Webster]

  "Such opportunities always infer obligations."  [1913 Webster]
•  To show; to manifest; to prove.  [1913 Webster]

  "The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first."  [1913 Webster]

  "This doth infer the zeal I had to see him."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

infer, v.tr. (inferred, inferring) (often foll. by that + clause)
1 deduce or conclude from facts and reasoning.
2 disp. imply, suggest.

Derivative

inferable adj. (also inferrable).

Etymology

L inferre (as IN-(2), ferre bring)

THESAURUS

infer

allegorize, allude to, analyze, apply reason, assume, be afraid, believe, bring to mind, collect, conceive, conclude, connote, consider, daresay, deduce, 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, understand, use reason

ROGET THESAURUS

infer

Reasoning,

VB reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle, argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments, chop logic, hold an argument, carry on an argument, controvert, canvass, comment upon, moralize upon, spiritualize, consider, open a discussion, open a case, try conclusions, join issue, be at issue, moot, come to the point, stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question, take up a side, take up a case, contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on, infer, follow from.

Implication

VB be latent, lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign, escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition, lie hid, laugh in one's sleeve, keep back, involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference, entail, whisper, read between the lines.