inferential

[ in-fuh-ren-shuhl ]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, by, or dependent upon inference.

inferential

/ ˌɪnfəˈrɛnʃəl /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or derived from inference

Derived Forms

• ˌinferˈentially, adverb

Other Words From

• infer·ential·ly adverb
• nonin·fer·ential adjective
• nonin·fer·ential·ly adverb
• unin·fer·ential adjective
• unin·fer·ential·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of inferential¹

1650–60; < Medieval Latin inferenti ( a ) inference + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Phenalgin,134 twin brother to the Antikamnia fraud, shouts its inferential falsehoods in a half-page display.

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All inferential knowledge is true or not, according as the laws of Logic have been obeyed or not.

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The only evidence, however, we can get at is indirect and inferential.

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It must be understood that the knowledge of primitive man, as we are about to outline it, is inferential.

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Now is that right, consequential—that is, inferential; logically deduced, going straight to the end—manly?

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