inferencenoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈɪn.fər.əns/us/-fɚ-/formala guess that you make or an opinion that you form based on the information that you have:
They were warned to expect a heavy air attack and by inference many casualties.
His change of mind was recent and sudden, the inference being that someone had persuaded him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Concluding and deducing
- analysis
- deduce
- deduction
- diagnosis
- exclude
- extrapolate
- gather
- in the last/final analysis idiom
- induction
- inductive
- infer
- must
- perceive
- put
- put sth down to sth
- put two and two together idiom
- reason
- syllogism
- two
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