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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pick out, collect |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, amass, ascertain, conclude, cull, deduce, extract, garner, gather, harvest, learn, pick, reap, select, sift, winnow |
| Main Entry: | infer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conclude |
| Synonyms: | arrive at, ascertain, assume, believe, collect, conjecture, construe, deduce, derive, draw, draw inference, figure, figure out, gather, glean, guess, induce, interpret, intuit, judge, presume, presuppose, reach conclusion, read between lines, read into, reason, reckon, speculate, suppose, surmise, think, understand |
| Notes: | a speaker or writer implies, a hearer or reader infers, and implications are incorporated in statements while inferences are deduced from statements; imply means 'suggest indirectly that something is true' while infer means 'conclude or deduce something is true' and, further, to imply is to suggest or throw out a suggestion while to infer is to include or take in a suggestion infer means 'to deduce, reason' and imply means 'to hint at, suggest' |
| Antonyms: | misconceive, misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate, infer |
| Synonyms: | calculate, collect, conclude, deduce, deduct, derive, dope out, draw, figure, gather, gauge, judge, reckon, suppose, think |
| Antonyms: | calculate, measure |
| Main Entry: | make out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | accept, catch, collect, compass, comprehend, conclude, decipher, deduce, deduct, derive, dig, fathom, follow, gather, grasp, infer, judge, perceive, realize, recognize, see, take in, work out |
| Antonyms: | misconceive, misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | perceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | appreciate, apprehend, comprehend, conclude, copy, deduce, distinguish, feature, feel, flash*, gather, get, get the message, get the picture, grasp, know, learn, pin, read, realize, recognize, see, sense, track |
| Antonyms: | misinterpret, misunderstand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reason |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mentally analyze |
| Synonyms: | adduce, cerebrate, cogitate, conclude, contemplate, decide, deduce, deduct, deliberate, draw conclusion, draw from, examine, figure out, gather, generalize, infer, make out, philosophize, ratiocinate, rationalize, reflect, resolve, solve, speculate, study, suppose, syllogize, think, think through, thresh out, work out |
| Main Entry: | reconstruct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reorganize, build up |
| Synonyms: | copy, deduce, do up, doctor*, fix, fix up, make over, modernize, overhaul, patch, piece together, reassemble, rebuild, recast, recondition, reconstitute, recreate, reestablish, refashion, reform, regenerate, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, remake, remodel, remold, renovate, reorient, repair, replace, reproduce, reshuffle, restore, retool, revamp, rework |
| Antonyms: | destroy, raze, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rule |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | judge, decide |
| Synonyms: | adjudge, adjudicate, conclude, decree, deduce, determine, establish, figure, find, fix, gather, hold, infer, lay down, pass upon, postulate, prescribe, pronounce, resolve, settle, theorize |
| Antonyms: | plead |
| Main Entry: | surmise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to a conclusion |
| Synonyms: | assume, conclude, conjecture, consider, deduce, fancy, guess, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, imagine, infer, opine, presume, pretend, regard, risk assuming, speculate, suppose, suspect, take a shot, take a stab, theorize, think, venture a guess |
| Notes: | demise is the time when something ends or death; surmise is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete or little evidence |
| Antonyms: | question, wonder |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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