Word Meanings - INFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. Harvey. 2. To offer, as violence. Spenser. 3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force.

Additional info about word: INFER

1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. Harvey. 2. To offer, as violence. Spenser. 3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force. Shak. 4. 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; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true. Locke. Such opportunities always infer obligations. Atterbury. 5. To show; to manifest; to prove. The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first. Sir T. More. This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFER)

• Collect
• Collate
• gather
• glean
• sum
• infer
• learn
• congregate
• assemble
• convoke
• convene
• muster
• amass
• garner
• accumulate
• Conclude
• Close
• terminate
• complete
• end
• decide
• finish
• deduce
• determine
• argue
• Consider
• Attend
• revolve
• meditate
• think
• reflect
• investigate
• regard
• observe
• judge
• opine
• weigh
• cogitate
• deliberate
• ponder
• deem
• Deduce
• Draw
• Infer
• conclude
• Reckon
• Compute
• calculate
• count
• estimate
• value
• account
• consider

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INFER)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Dismiss
• disperse
• relegate
• remit
• disband
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misjudge
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to INFER)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• DECOLLATED
  Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.