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speculative

/spek-yuh-ley-tiv, -luh-tiv/US // ˈspɛk yəˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv //UK // (ˈspɛkjʊlətɪv) //

投机性,投机性的,推测性的,推测性

Related Words

unsubstantiated未经证实的,未经证实,未证实的,没有事实根据的dangerous危险的,危险,危险的是,危险性unproved未经证实的,未经证实,未被证实,未经证明的hypothetical假设性的,假定的,假设性,假定性的analytical分析性的,分析性,分析师,剖析性experimental实验性,实验性的,试验性的,试验性risky有风险的,有风险,危险的,风险大unproven未经证实的,未获证实,未证实的,未被证实的abstract抽象的,抽象,抽取,抽象派assumed假定的,假冒的,假设的,假设dicey狡猾的,狡猾,狡猾的人,诡异的hairy有毛的,有毛,多毛的,有毛发的hazardous危险的,有危险性的,危险,有危险的ideal理想,理想的,理想状态,理想中的iffy有问题,有问题的,不确定,不太好intellectual知识分子,知识份子,知识分子的,知识份子的logical合理,合理的,逻辑的,逻辑性philosophical哲学的,哲学,哲学上的,哲理uncertain不明确,不确定,不明确的,不明朗notional名义,名义上的,名义的,名义上

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
    • : theoretical, rather than practical: speculative conclusions.
    • : given to speculation, as persons, the mind, etc.
    • : of the nature of or involving commercial or financial speculation: speculative ventures.
    • : engaging in or given to such speculation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.theoretical
Synonyms
analytical分析性的,分析性,分析师,剖析性dangerous危险的,危险,危险的是,危险性experimental实验性,实验性的,试验性的,试验性hypothetical假设性的,假定的,假设性,假定性的risky有风险的,有风险,危险的,风险大unproved未经证实的,未经证实,未被证实,未经证明的unproven未经证实的,未获证实,未证实的,未被证实的unsubstantiated未经证实的,未经证实,未证实的,没有事实根据的abstract抽象的,抽象,抽取,抽象派assumed假定的,假冒的,假设的,假设conceptive概念性的,观念性的,概念性,观念性dicey狡猾的,狡猾,狡猾的人,诡异的formularized配方化,配方化的,配方式的,配方的hairy有毛的,有毛,多毛的,有毛发的hazardous危险的,有危险性的,危险,有危险的ideal理想,理想的,理想状态,理想中的idealized理想化的,理想化ideological思想上的,思想上,意识形态,思想iffy有问题,有问题的,不确定,不太好in theory在理论上,理论上,理论上说,理论上讲intellectual知识分子,知识份子,知识分子的,知识份子的logical合理,合理的,逻辑的,逻辑性notional名义,名义上的,名义的,名义上philosophical哲学的,哲学,哲学上的,哲理presumed推定的,推测的,假定的,假设uncertain不明确,不确定,不明确的,不明朗

Examples

  • This is speculative, but it’s quite possible that Apple could become the number two mobile search engine.

  • “These are speculative for sure, with a capital S,” says William Gabella.

  • He openly advocates that catching the coronavirus is a good thing, because healthy people will build up antibodies, a claim that is entirely speculative at this point.

  • The most recent numbers are speculative and from 2016, but they suggest that at the time, at least half of Americans had photos in a face recognition system.

  • All to be taken for what they are—informed but utterly speculative proposals.

  • Dardagan and his peers are the first to admit that local media reports often are speculative in the extreme.

  • Architecture has a long history of this type of speculative design.

  • The speculative architecture of today can play that same role, and it often does.

  • But it might break down in regimes we have trouble testing, and some speculative theories have proposed something like that.

  • Luskin makes the best argument he can, of course, but it is piecemeal and speculative.

  • Her youthful vanity had its way in a mind too speculative, intelligent, observant, merely to be shocked.

  • It was not a languid, speculative, preference of one theory of government to another, but a fierce and dominant passion.

  • It may be something; it may be nothing; but my speculative instinct has been aroused by a strange peculiarity in his playing.

  • Any lurking danger of too great speculative restlessness disappeared.

  • But from the day it was completed its securities have figured in the market only for their speculative values.

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