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US
/ˈspɛkjəɫətɪv/
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[ UK /spˈɛkjʊlətˌɪv/ ]
[ UK /spˈɛkjʊlətˌɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not financially safe or secure
high risk investments
anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky
speculative business enterprises
a bad investment -
showing curiosity
if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive
raised a speculative eyebrow -
not based on fact or investigation
a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs
speculative knowledge
How To Use speculative In A Sentence
- Sadly what he calls'the paucity of evidence and excess of speculative interpretation' is unlikely to clear the air. The Times Literary Supplement
- You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
- They are highly speculative and you should only invest what you can afford to lose. Times, Sunday Times
- Most attempts to quantify the effect of a separation are speculative. Times, Sunday Times
- His book is unspeculative to a degree seldom met with outside railway timetables. Times, Sunday Times
- Another factor discussed in the post I just linked to is that people differ in how responsive they are to elements which are nonrealistic, fantastic, speculative, supernatural, etc. Archive 2009-03-15
- The papers ran speculative stories about the mysterious disappearance of Eddie Donagan.
- Therefore in speculative matters the same truth holds among all men both as to principles and as to conclusions, even though all men do not discern this truth in the conclusions but only in those principles which are called axiomatic notions. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
- Any synergy realisations were prospective and speculative. Even then, it valued the shares at between 247-266 pence per share.
- But the noose and lifeline metaphors dramatize the in-culture ‘factness’ of much writing, its consequentiality, rather than the seductive pleasures of its speculative realm.