INFERRING Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

inferring

verb

present participle of infer

as in deriving

to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information he inferred that she had left because her coat was gone

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Relevance

as in implying

to convey an idea indirectly the results infer that there might be a problem with one piece of the equipment

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Recent Examples of inferring But some experts are inferring that the cancer was likely caught early, noting that surgery is often prescribed when the entire tumor can be removed. — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 16 Oct. 2026 This allows engineers to collect information directly from within the battery rather than inferring its condition through external measurements alone. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026 The platform should generate MCP tools at runtime, discovering sources, inferring schema semantics and exposing them to agents without manual configuration while updating the ontology in near real time. — Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 Large language models are extraordinarily good at inferring context clues—in this case, the user’s name, professional background, and likely objections—and tailoring output accordingly. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026 His real talent seemed to be inferring some of the more mundane details of my life. — Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025 Like detectives reconstructing a crime scene or archaeologists inferring the entire shape of a pot from a minimal number of fragments, scholars of historical linguistics figure out the earlier forms that must have given rise to words in many different languages and connect the dots between them. — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025 State-of-the-art frame interpolation methods generate intermediate frames by inferring object motions in the image from consecutive key-frames. — IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2022

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inferring

Verb

There is just enough wry humor—think Shaun of the Dead—sprinkled throughout to keep things from getting too grim, often deriving from Bryan’s cluelessness and general lack of skills.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
The Chiefs finished dead last in the NFL with 362 yards deriving from explosive rushes last season.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of deriving

Verb

During that period and beyond, Hawthorne kept a series of notebooks, which scholars see as an important primary source for understanding the ideas and descriptions that informed his early writings and later novels.

— Robert S. Levine, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
The science writer Ann Finkbender wrote a charming essay about understanding this principle of life in Last Word on Nothing.

— Shayla Love, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of understanding

Verb

In the region that includes Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada, the proportion of flu tests that come back positive reached at least 10% last week, indicating significant levels of flu.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Polls suggest the race is essentially tied, with some indicating Jackson has a razor-thin lead.

— Chantelle Lee, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of indicating

Verb

Moghadam also said that Tehran would study the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement that includes Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey before deciding whether to support it, describing it as a potential instrument for unity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Florida voters are deciding whether to pass a constitutional amendment that would lower property taxes for some — but not all — homeowners by raising the state’s homestead tax exemption.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of deciding

Verb

The filmmaker was hinting heavily at what might be in store for the festival’s surprise screening Wednesday evening at the Institut Lumière.

— Lise Pedersen, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
With the midterms coming up and the administration hinting generally at more budget cuts in the past week, educators here want to spread the word.

— Lauren Linder, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of hinting

Verb

The tests could easily do the opposite, as people with results suggesting cancer require follow-up testing that overwhelms our healthcare system, potentially delaying diagnoses for people with cancer.

— Torie Bosch, STAT, 24 Oct. 2026
The researchers also found evidence that features of both states could briefly coexist, suggesting that their relationship is more complicated than a simple winner-takes-all competition.

— Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026

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