inferred

[ in-furd ]

adjective

1. derived by reasoning or concluded from evidence, or provisionally identified through either of these methods:

   An inferred weapon is one that we know exists due to forensic analysis of material from the crime scene.

2. assumed as a result of estimation or speculation:

   Investors should note the guesswork involved in the company's inferred mineral deposit, absent the site visit and technical report of a legally qualified person.

3. implied or hinted at:

   If I understand correctly, the inferred suggestion is that the journalist got his information from the victim's family.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of infer ( def ).

Other Words From

• qua·si-in·ferred adjective
• un·in·ferred adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of inferred¹

infer ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

You can accurately infer a lot about someone simply by knowing their ethnicity, sex, or country of origin.

From Nautilus

This is typical of the difficulties inferring directionality.

From Washington Post

Nor do we know how many of those 94 got the vaccine as opposed to the placebo, although experts said we can infer it’s less than 10 if the vaccine efficacy really is greater than 90 percent.

From FiveThirtyEight

Such parallels also show up in deep nets that can look at a 2D scene and infer the underlying properties of the 3D objects within it, which helps to explain how biological perception can be both fast and incredibly rich.

From Quanta Magazine

If the imaging ticks the boxes for a specific degree of forest maturity, researchers could then infer insect diversity from what they know of similar forests.

From MIT Technology Review

Scheiber inferred that Jarrett “is the closest we have to a human decoder ring” capable of unveiling “the real Barack Obama.”

From The Daily Beast

The same group of astronomers has also inferred a type of exoplanet that fits in between the rocky planets and the gas giants.

From The Daily Beast

But a la the premise often inferred by Disney's Cool Runnings, can anybody do it?

From The Daily Beast

Indeed, neither conclusion can be inferred even from what Issacharoff quotes Olmert saying, but never mind.

From The Daily Beast

CEO seemed to have inferred that a 400-pound black woman is on welfare, despite having no proof.

From The Daily Beast

I cannot understand how my brother can have inferred from my letter that the quartet had no success.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet it must not be inferred therefore, that he was stiffly set against all change.

From Project Gutenberg

It is inferred therefore that the idea has been transmitted to us through the medium of our early moralities and interludes.

From Project Gutenberg

And how can it be inferred from thence that we suppose a provincial Act necessary to enforce an Act of Parliament?

From Project Gutenberg

From Bess's tone one might have inferred that this meant extreme old age.

From Project Gutenberg