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speculative
/ˈspɛkjələtɪv/
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What does speculative mean?
adjective
- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
- Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
- Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈspɛkjələtɪv/
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It is not surprising that a people so intensely speculative, excitable, and eager as the Americans, should be desperately addicted to gambling.
As Vail built up the young telephone business, they held it from being torn to shreds in an orgy of speculative competition.
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The collisions of party spirit which originate in speculative opinions or in different views of administrative policy are in their nature transitory.
Similarly the same line of thought may be traced in Hegel though it has been disguised in the form of speculative dialectics.
It soothes the whole system, and plunges one into an agreeable dreamy speculative mood, through which all sorts of fantastic notions resolve.