Synonyms of inferring

inferring

verb

present participle of infer

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deriving
• understanding
• deciding
• reasoning
• deducing
• extrapolating
• thinking
• concluding
• judging
• guessing
• assuming
• speculating
• ascertaining
• reading
• supposing
• gathering
• making out
• interpreting
• drawing a conclusion
• construing
• contemplating
• surmising
• rationalizing
• conjecturing
• finding out
• philosophizing
• doping (out)

2

as in implying

to convey an idea indirectly

the results infer that there might be a problem with one piece of the equipment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• implying
• indicating
• hinting
• suggesting
• alluding
• referring
• intimating
• insinuating
• pointing
• signaling
• mentioning
• signifying
• adverting
• signalizing
• smelling (of)
• smacking (of)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• declaring
• announcing
• explaining
• proclaiming
• describing
• elucidating
• spelling out
• delineating

Example Sentences

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