1. Derived or capable of being derived by inference
   "The detective's inferential reasoning led to a breakthrough in the case"
    
2. Resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
   "inferential reasoning";
   - illative
    
3. (logic) of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
   "Her inferential analysis of the data supported the hypothesis"
    
4. Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
   "the inferential faculty of the mind";
   - illative
    
5. Based on interpretation; not directly expressed
   "The inferential conclusion was drawn from the circumstantial evidence"

See also: connotative, constructive, deductive

Encyclopedia: Inferential