Etymology: [ 'spe-ky&-"lAt ] (verb.) 1599. From Latin speculātus, past participle of speculor (“look out”), from specula (“watchtower”), from specio (“look at”)
to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to deliberate or cogitate, to make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble, to make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture, to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" 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" 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, 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", 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", If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen. It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head The reader can speculate what will happen next. + speculation speculations specu·la·tion The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister, If someone speculates financially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit. The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped, consider, reflect, ponder, wonder; theorize, hypothesize; engage in risky business transactions; buy and sell commodities to profit from market fluctuations, 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", to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps", To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing, 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, 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, To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori, 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, theorize, past of speculate, third-person singular of speculate, present participle of speculate,
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to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to deliberate or cogitate
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to make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble
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to make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture
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to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" 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" 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
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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"
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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"
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If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen. It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head The reader can speculate what will happen next. + speculation speculations specu·la·tion The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister
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If someone speculates financially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit. The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped
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consider, reflect, ponder, wonder; theorize, hypothesize; engage in risky business transactions; buy and sell commodities to profit from market fluctuations fiil
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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"
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to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
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To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing
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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
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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
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To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori
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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
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