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speculative
adjective
1 speculative
Not financially safe or secure:
— Speculative business enterprises.
synonyms: bad, high-risk, risky.
Roget 463:
experimental,
empirical.
probative,
probatory†,
probationary,
provisional;
analytic,
docimastic†;
tentative;
unverified,
unproven,
speculative,
untested.
Roget 514:
supposing
etc.
v.;
given,
mooted,
postulatory†;
assumed
etc.
v.;
supposititious,
suppositive†,
suppositious;
gratuitous,
speculative,
conjectural,
hypothetical,
theoretical,
academic,
supposable,
presumptive,
putative;
suppositional.
suggestive,
allusive.
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Roget 621:
fortuitous
etc.
156;
unintentional,
unintended;
accidental;
not meant;
undesigned,
purposed;
unpremeditated
etc.
612;
unforeseen,
uncontemplated,
never thought of.
random,
indiscriminate,
promiscuous;
undirected;
aimless,
driftless†,
designless†,
purposeless,
causeless;
without purpose.
possible
etc.
470.
unforeseeable,
unpredictable,
chancy,
risky,
speculative,
dicey.
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Roget 451:
thinking
etc.
v.;
thoughtful,
pensive,
meditative,
reflective,
museful†,
wistful,
contemplative,
speculative,
deliberative,
studious,
sedate,
introspective,
Platonic,
philosophical.
lost in thought
etc.
(inattentive)
458;
deep musing
etc.
(intent)
457.
in the mind,
under consideration.
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2 speculative
Not based on fact or investigation:
— Speculative knowledge.
synonym: notional.
Polish: spekulatywny
3 speculative
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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