Adjective illative has 3 senses
  1. inferential, illative - relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind"
  2. illative, inferential - resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning"
    Antonym: inductive (indirect, via deductive)
  3. illative - expressing or preceding an inference; "`therefore' is an illative word"
    Antonym:
    inductive (indirect, via deductive)
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