speculate in English dictionary

  • speculate

    Meanings and definitions of "speculate"

    • (intransitive) to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to deliberate or cogitate
    • (intransitive) to make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture
    • (intransitive, business, finance) to make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
    • verb
      (intransitive, business, finance)
      To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
    • to meditate
    • to make an inference
    • to make a risky trade
    • (to) speculate
    • To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds.
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"

    Synonyms of "speculate" in English dictionary

    conjecture, hypothesise, hypothecate are the top synonyms of "speculate" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of speculate

    • speculate ( third-person singular simple present speculates, present participle speculating, simple past and past participle speculated)
    • speculate (third-person singular simple present speculates, present participle speculating, simple past and past participle speculated)
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