verb
- drawing a conclusion or making a logical deduction based on evidence or reasoning
Usage: present participle of ‘infer’
Examples
- She was inferring from his tone that he was upset.
- The detective spent hours inferring the suspect’s motives from the evidence.
- By inferring patterns in the data, scientists made new discoveries.
- Students practice inferring meaning from context clues in reading passages.
- He was inferring too much from a single conversation.
- The jury was inferring guilt from the defendant’s nervous behavior.