| Main Entry: | deduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | figure out, understand |
Synonyms: |
add up, analyze, assume, be afraid, boil down, cogitate, collect, conceive, conclude, consider, deduct, deem, derive, draw, fancy, figure, gather, glean, have a hunch, imagine, infer, judge, make, make out, presume, presuppose, ratiocinate, read into, reason, regard, surmise, take to mean |
| Notes: | deduce means to conclude by reasoning or in logic; adduce means to cite as proof or evidence; deduct means to take away from or subtract from another |
| Main Entry: | assume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe, take for granted |
Synonyms: |
accept, ascertain, be afraid, be inclined to think, conclude, conjecture, consider, count upon, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, expect, fall for, fancy, find, gather, get the idea, guess, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, hypothesize, imagine, infer, judge, posit, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, understand |
| Notes: | assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case' |
Antonyms: |
doubt, not believe |
| Main Entry: | decipher |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | figure out, understand |
Synonyms: |
analyze, break, break down, bring out, cipher, construe, crack, decode, deduce, disentangle, dope out, elucidate, encipher, explain, expound, find the key, interpret, make clear, make out, puzzle out, read, render, reveal, solve, spell, translate, unfold, unravel, unriddle |
Antonyms: |
code, encode, scramble |
| 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: | educe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring out, elicit |
Synonyms: |
come out, conclude, deduce, derive, develop, distill, drag, draw, draw out, evince, evoke, evolve, excogitate, extort, extract, gain, get, infer, milk, obtain, procure, pull, reason, secure, think out, wrest, wring |
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
Synonyms: |
account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, calculate roughly, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, form opinion, gauge, guess, guesstimate, judge, look into, look upon, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, run over, scheme, set a figure, size up, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, think through |
| Main Entry: | extract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | select a quotation |
Synonyms: |
abridge, abstract, bring forth, choose, cite, condense, copy, cull, cut out, deduce, derive, educe, elicit, evolve, excerpt, glean, quote, shorten |
Antonyms: |
edit in, insert |
| Main Entry: | extrapolate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infer |
Synonyms: |
anticipate, assume, conclude, deduce, envision, figure, foresee, foretell, guess, hypothesize, make an educated guess, predict, project, see ahead, theorize |
| 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: | gather |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be led to believe; infer |
Synonyms: |
assume, conclude, deduce, draw, expect, find, hear, imagine, judge, learn, make, presume, reckon, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, think, understand |
Antonyms: |
misunderstand |