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Speculative
Definition
Speculative means based on guesses or ideas, rather than on facts.
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- speculative fiction
- speculative bubble
- speculative investment
- speculative attack
- speculative trading
- speculative grade
- speculative purposes
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Usage note
Often used in finance and economics to describe investments or markets based on anticipated future price changes rather than current value. Can imply a lack of solid evidence.
Example sentences
- The scientist made a speculative guess about what caused the explosion.
- The detective had a speculative theory about who committed the crime.
- The teacher asked her students to make a speculative prediction about what would happen next in the story.
- The artist created a speculative drawing of what aliens might look like.
- The author's speculative novel imagined a world where robots ruled over humans.
Quotes
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. - Martin H. Fischer
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. - Clarence Darrow
The only thing I can do is tell the truth, and if that results in people thinking I'm a jerk, than maybe I'm a jerk. But I like to sleep well at night. - Anderson Cooper
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