infer

infer is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bring on; to induce; to occasion. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To bring on; to induce; to occasion.
2. transitive verb. To offer, as violence.
3. transitive verb. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. transitive verb. To show; to manifest; to prove.
6. verb. believe to be the case

   "I understand you have no previous experience?"

   Synonyms: understand

7. verb. guess correctly; solve by guessing

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

   Synonyms: guess

8. verb. reason by deduction; establish by deduction

   Synonyms: deduce, deduct, derive

9. verb. conclude by reasoning; in logic

   Synonyms: deduce

10. verb. draw from specific cases for more general cases

    Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, generalize

Synonyms

understand, guess, deduce, deduct, derive, extrapolate, generalise, generalize

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in infer:

finer

Common word forms

infers, inferred, inferrer, inferable, inferring

Words from these letters

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