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say it: in-fur-EN-shuhl
inferential is an adjective meaning "relating to or having the nature of illation or inference". It carries 5 recorded senses.
relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
“the illative faculty of the mind”
of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
logic
resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
“an illative conclusion”
“inferential reasoning”
derived or capable of being derived by inference
based on interpretation; not directly expressed
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inferential come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.