intuit [in-too-it, -tyoo-; in-too-it, -tyoo-]
Main Entry:
intuit [in-too-it, -tyoo-; in-too-it, -tyoo-]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: perceive
Synonyms: appreciate, apprehend, comprehend, conclude, copy, deduce, distinguish, feature, feel, feel in one's bones, flash*, gather, get the message, get the picture, get vibrations, get*, grasp, know, learn, pin, read, realize, recognize, see, sense, track
Main Entry: divine
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: prophesy
Synonyms: anticipate, apprehend, conjecture, deduce, discern, forebode, forefeel, foreknow, foresee, foretell, go out on a limb, guess, infer, intuit, perceive, predict, previse, prognosticate, see, see in the cards, suppose, surmise, suspect, take a shot, take a stab, understand, visualize
Main Entry: feel
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: believe
Synonyms: assume, be convinced, be of the opinion, conclude, conjecture, consider, credit, deduce, deem, esteem, gather, guess, have a hunch, have the impression, hold, infer, intuit, judge, know, presume, repute, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, think
Antonyms: disbelieve
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: presage
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: predict or have a feeling
Synonyms: adumbrate, announce, augur, betoken, bode, divine, feel, forebode, forecast, forerun, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, herald, intuit, omen, point to, portend, preindicate, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, sense, signify, soothsay, vaticinate, warn
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