Word Definition

Infer

  1. To offer, as violence.
  2. To bring on; to induce; to occasion.
  3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.
  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.
  5. To show; to manifest; to prove.