inferential

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
adjective of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
adjective resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference

From inference + -ial.

Few of Pitt’s letters refer to his private affairs in the years 1784–86; and the knowledge which we have of them is largely inferential. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
The subject is more recondite than the foregoing; the facts are less accessible; and my statements must partake more of the inferential than did those embraced in the former branches of the subject. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
Delane of the Times was at this period especially close to Palmerston, and it is at least inferential that the editorial was an advance notice of governmental intention to apply a policy known in intimate circles to have been for some time matured. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

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