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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. relating to or having the nature of illation or inference;
- Example: "the illative faculty of the mind"
[syn: inferential, illative]

2. of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion;

3. resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference;
- Example: "an illative conclusion"
- Example: "inferential reasoning"
[syn: illative, inferential]

4. derived or capable of being derived by inference;

5. based on interpretation; not directly expressed;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Inferential \In`fer*en"tial\, a. Deduced or deducible by inference. "Inferential proofs." --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

inferential adj 1: relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind" [syn: inferential, illative] 2: of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion 3: resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning" [syn: illative, inferential] 4: derived or capable of being derived by inference 5: based on interpretation; not directly expressed
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "inferential": a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, allusive, allusory, analytic, categorical, conditional, deductive, dialectic, discursive, enthymematic, epagogic, hypothetical, implicational, implicative, implicatory, indicative, inductive, insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory, ironic, maieutic, referential, soritical, suggestive, syllogistic, synthetic