infer
verb
[ ɪnˈfəː ]
• deduce or conclude (something) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
• "from these facts we can infer that crime has been increasing"
Similar:
deduce,
reason,
work out,
conclude,
come to the conclusion,
draw the inference,
conjecture,
surmise,
theorize,
hypothesize,
gather,
understand,
presume,
assume,
take it,
come to understand,
glean,
extrapolate,
reckon,
read between the lines,
figure,
suss,
suss out,
collect,
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘bring about, inflict’): from Latin inferre ‘bring in, bring about’ (in medieval Latin ‘deduce’), from in- ‘into’ + ferre ‘bring’.
