Dictionary Definition
speculative adj
1 not financially safe or secure; "a bad
investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to
pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business
enterprises" [syn: bad,
insecure, risky, high-risk]
2 not based on fact or investigation; "a notional
figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative
knowledge" [syn: notional]
3 showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man
climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a
speculative eyebrow" [syn: inquisitive, questioning, wondering(a)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
speculative- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing or unfounded opinions.
Translations
characterized by speculation; based on guessing
or unfounded opinions
- French: spéculatif
- German: spekulativ
Italian
Adjective
speculative- Feminine plural form of speculativo
Extensive Definition
Speculative may refer to:
- For economics usage, see Speculation
- For usage in literature, see Speculative fiction
- For philosophical usage, see Speculative philosophy and Speculative reason
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abstract, academic, adventurous, aleatory, analytical, arguable, armchair, at issue, chancy, closet, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, confutable, conjectural, contemplating, contemplative, contestable, controversial, controvertible, curious, debatable, deliberating, deliberative, deniable, dicey, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, excogitating, full of risk,
hazardous, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, idealistic, idealized, ideational, ideative, iffy, impractical, in dispute, in
doubt, in dubio, in question, inquiring, intellectual, introspective, meditating, meditative, mental, mistakable, moot, museful, musing, noetic, notional, open to doubt, open
to question, pensive,
pondering, postulatory, prehensive, problematic, questionable, questioning, ratiocinative, rational, reflecting, reflective, refutable, riskful, risky, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suspect, suspicious, theoretical, thinking, thought, thoughtful, uncertain, unpractical, unproved, unproven, unrealistic, unreliable, untested, untrustworthy, venturesome, venturous, wildcat, wistful