About The Word Speculate
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Speculate
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What's The Definition Of Speculate?
[v] talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"
[v] reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [v] to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps." [v] invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating" Synonyms | Synonyms for Speculate: chew over | conjecture | contemplate | excogotate | hypothecate | hypothesise | hypothesize | job | meditate | mull | mull over | muse | ponder | reflect | ruminate | suppose | theorise | theorize | think over Related Terms | Find terms related to Speculate: See Also | anticipate | bethink | brood | bull | cerebrate | cogitate | commit | consider | construct | develop | dwell | expect | explicate | formulate | guess | hazard | introspect | invest | place | premeditate | put | puzzle | question | reason | reconstruct | retrace | say | study | suppose | theologise | theologize | think | venture | wonder | worry Speculate In Webster's Dictionary \Spec"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Speculated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Speculating}.] [L. speculatus, p. p. of
speculari to spy out, observe, fr. specula a lookout, fr.
specere to look. See {Spy}.]
1. To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing
it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to
contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in
religion; to speculate on political events.
It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most
boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude
to the external regulations of society. --Hawthorne.
2. (Philos.) To view subjects from certain premises given or
assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
3. (Com.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent
advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; --
often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or
hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in
sugar, or in bank stock.
\Spec"u*late\, v. t. To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing. [R.] --Sir W. Hamilton. |
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