1831 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ spˈɛkjʊlˌe͡ɪt], [ spˈɛkjʊlˌe‍ɪt], [ s_p_ˈɛ_k_j_ʊ_l_ˌeɪ_t]

Similar words for speculate:

• conjecture (noun)
• excogotate (noun)
• hypothecate (noun)
• hypothesise (noun)
• hypothesize (noun)
• job (noun)
• mull (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• assume (verb)
• bank (verb)
• believe (verb)
• bet (verb)
• brood (verb)
• chance (verb)
• cogitate (verb)
• communication (verb)
• conceive (verb)
• consider (verb)
• contemplate (verb)
• dare (verb)
• deliberate (verb)
• experiment (verb)
• gamble (verb)
• gamble, risk (verb)
• generalize (verb)
• guess (verb)
• hazard (verb)
• infer (verb)
• meditate (verb)
• muse (verb)
• ponder (verb)
• postulate (verb)
• predict (verb)
• presume (verb)
• presuppose (verb)
• ratiocinate (verb)
• reason (verb)
• risk (verb)
• suppose (verb)
• surmise (verb)
• suspect (verb)
• theorize (verb)
• think (verb)
• think about deeply and theorize (verb)
• try (verb)
• venture (verb)
• wager (verb)
• wonder (verb)
• other synonyms
• believe
• chance
• create
• deliberate
• experiment
• generalize
• other relevant words
• reason
• suppose
• think
• venture
• wonder
• other relevant words (noun)

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Synonyms for Speculate:

• n.

  •
  • put in,
  • roll over,
  • save,
  • hedge.
  •
  • opinion.
  •
  • belief.
  •
  • gambling.
  • conjecture (noun)
  • conjecture.
  • excogotate (noun)
  • excogotate.
  • hypothecate (noun)
  • hypothecate.
  • hypothesise (noun)
  • hypothesise.
  • hypothesize (noun)
  • hypothesize.
  • job (noun)
  • job.
  • mull (noun)
  • mull.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • question.

• v.

  • assume (verb)
  • had sneaking suspicion,
  • is inclined to think,
  • having hunch,
  • gotten the idea,
  • de-duce,
  • under-stand,
  • had hunch,
  • being inclined think,
  • are afraid,
  • were afraid,
  • art inclined think,
  • gat the idea,
  • de-duces,
  • wast afraid,
  • art inclined to think,
  • hast sneaking suspicion,
  • gat idea,
  • be inclined think,
  • wert afraid,
  • haddest sneaking suspicion,
  • count up on,
  • hath hunch,
  • haddest a hunch,
  • under-stood,
  • was afraid,
  • hadst a hunch,
  • gets the idea,
  • was inclined to think,
  • hath a hunch,
  • de duce,
  • having sneaking suspicion,
  • hast hunch,
  • gets idea,
  • has hunch,
  • were inclined to think,
  • having a hunch,
  • wert inclined think,
  • had a hunch,
  • art afraid,
  • hath sneaking suspicion,
  • were inclined think,
  • getting idea,
  • am afraid,
  • de duces,
  • under-stands,
  • is inclined think,
  • got the idea,
  • are inclined think,
  • being afraid,
  • hadst sneaking suspicion,
  • being inclined to think,
  • under stands,
  • was inclined think,
  • haddest hunch,
  • got idea,
  • hadst hunch,
  • has sneaking suspicion,
  • under stand,
  • hast a hunch,
  • are inclined to think,
  • wast inclined to think,
  • wast inclined think,
  • under standing,
  • gotten idea,
  • get idea,
  • under-standing,
  • under stood,
  • wert inclined to think,
  • getting the idea.
  • bank (verb)
  • in vest,
  • in-vests,
  • de-posit,
  • in vesting,
  • de-posited,
  • in vested,
  • laying away,
  • de posits,
  • laying aside,
  • in-vest,
  • in vests,
  • laid away,
  • in-vesting,
  • de positing,
  • de-positing,
  • de posited,
  • de-posits,
  • in-vested,
  • de posit.
  • believe (verb)
  • be-lieve,
  • be lieve.
  • bet (verb)
  • played the ponies,
  • buys in on,
  • playing the ponies,
  • plays against,
  • tossed up,
  • playing ponies,
  • played ponies,
  • lays odds,
  • tempting fortune,
  • buy on,
  • tempted fortune,
  • anteed,
  • laid odds,
  • bought on,
  • plays for,
  • bought in on,
  • plays the ponies,
  • played for,
  • plays ponies,
  • play ponies,
  • ponying up,
  • tossing up,
  • playing against,
  • tost up,
  • ponied up,
  • tempts fortune,
  • lays down,
  • puts money on,
  • buying in on,
  • played against,
  • buying on,
  • playing for,
  • putting money on,
  • tosses up,
  • buys on.
  • brood (verb)
  • eats ones heart out,
  • is brown study,
  • am in brown study,
  • stews over,
  • sweated over,
  • was in brown study,
  • are brown study,
  • re-pines,
  • ate ones heart out,
  • eats heart out,
  • eating heart out,
  • dwell up on,
  • chafing inwardly,
  • am brown study,
  • mulled over,
  • art in brown study,
  • be brown study,
  • thought up on,
  • sweats out,
  • eat one heart out,
  • sweated out,
  • eat ones heart out,
  • eats one's heart out,
  • sweating over,
  • eating ones heart out,
  • eating one's heart out,
  • wast in brown study,
  • re pined,
  • chafes inwardly,
  • are in brown study,
  • being in brown study,
  • re pine,
  • re pining,
  • wast brown study,
  • wert brown study,
  • stewed over,
  • eats one heart out,
  • were in brown study,
  • art brown study,
  • thinks up on,
  • sweats over,
  • stewing over,
  • ate one heart out,
  • thinking up on,
  • re-pining,
  • ate heart out,
  • chafed inwardly,
  • thought upon,
  • thinks upon,
  • being brown study,
  • thinking upon,
  • re-pine,
  • re-pined,
  • ate one's heart out,
  • eating one heart out,
  • is in brown study,
  • were brown study,
  • re pines,
  • wert in brown study,
  • think up on,
  • was brown study.
  • chance (verb)
  • venture,
  • risk.
  • cogitate (verb)
  • flashing on,
  • flashes on,
  • flashed on,
  • noodles around,
  • noodling around,
  • chew cud,
  • kicks around,
  • noodled around.
  • communication (verb)
  • speculate.
  • conceive (verb)
  • de-picturing,
  • de signing,
  • becomes pregnant,
  • trumping up,
  • pro duces,
  • de-signing,
  • de-pictures,
  • de vising,
  • heads trip,
  • de picturing,
  • heading trip,
  • de picture,
  • de vise,
  • de pictures,
  • de-signs,
  • de pictured,
  • de-vised,
  • de-pictured,
  • de-vise,
  • de-picture,
  • de-vising,
  • spitballing,
  • de-sign,
  • thinking up,
  • trumps up,
  • pro duce,
  • de vised,
  • headed trip,
  • de sign,
  • thinks up,
  • de signed,
  • de-signed,
  • spitballed,
  • pro-duces,
  • de signs.
  • consider (verb)
  • keeping mind,
  • keeps in mind,
  • allowed for,
  • re cognizing,
  • re-cognized,
  • take in to account,
  • allows for,
  • providing for,
  • ex cogitate,
  • in-spects,
  • flirts with,
  • ex-cogitating,
  • ex-cogitates,
  • kept in mind,
  • kept mind,
  • assents to,
  • ex cogitated,
  • sees about,
  • takes into account,
  • flirted with,
  • re gards,
  • flirting with,
  • keeping in mind,
  • re-cognizing,
  • in-spect,
  • in spects,
  • taking under advisement,
  • perpending,
  • ex-cogitated,
  • assented to,
  • ex cogitating,
  • perpended,
  • tost around,
  • takes under advisement,
  • took under advisement,
  • re cognized,
  • keep mind,
  • thinks over,
  • assenting to,
  • saw about,
  • re-gard,
  • re cognizes,
  • chewing over,
  • reckoning with,
  • re cognize,
  • chewed over,
  • ex-cogitate,
  • subscribes to,
  • seeing about,
  • ex cogitates,
  • reckons with,
  • perpends,
  • provides for,
  • chews over,
  • in spect,
  • keeps mind,
  • thinks out,
  • tossing around,
  • tosses around,
  • reckoned with,
  • subscribing to.
  • contemplate (verb)
  • fore-sees,
  • pro-pose,
  • meditates on,
  • in tended,
  • fore-seen,
  • cools out,
  • aspires to,
  • mused over,
  • in-tends,
  • pro pose,
  • cooled out,
  • pro-posing,
  • reflect up on,
  • fore seen,
  • fore-see,
  • in-tending,
  • aspired to,
  • in-tend,
  • thinks of,
  • reflects upon,
  • fore-seeing,
  • fore see,
  • in-tended,
  • sized up,
  • cooling out,
  • reflecting up on,
  • reflects up on,
  • musing over,
  • fore saw,
  • in tend,
  • brooded over,
  • muses over,
  • meditated on,
  • fore seeing,
  • meditating on,
  • in tending,
  • pro posing,
  • broods over,
  • sizes up,
  • fore sees,
  • pro posed,
  • fore-saw,
  • reflected up on,
  • reflecting upon,
  • brooding over,
  • in tends.
  • dare (verb)
  • tried hand,
  • end angers,
  • end-anger,
  • trying one's hand,
  • wert bold,
  • took chance,
  • being bold,
  • end-angering,
  • taking a chance,
  • under-take,
  • tries one's hand,
  • is bold,
  • under taking,
  • end-angers,
  • plucks up,
  • under-taken,
  • under taken,
  • end angered,
  • end-angered,
  • under take,
  • tries hand,
  • under-takes,
  • making bold,
  • tried one's hand,
  • try ones hand,
  • took heart,
  • plucking up,
  • took a chance,
  • am bold,
  • tried ones hand,
  • tries ones hand,
  • art bold,
  • under-taking,
  • trying ones hand,
  • tried one hand,
  • takes heart,
  • makes bold,
  • plucked up,
  • made bold,
  • try one hand,
  • take chance,
  • try hand,
  • trying hand,
  • takes chance,
  • wast bold,
  • tries one hand,
  • takes a chance,
  • under-took,
  • was bold,
  • end anger,
  • are bold,
  • end angering,
  • under takes,
  • taking heart,
  • under took,
  • trying one hand,
  • were bold.
  • deliberate (verb)
  • poured it on,
  • de liberating,
  • puts on thinking cap,
  • hammers away at,
  • de-liberating,
  • talking over,
  • pouring on,
  • pouring it on,
  • ran flagpole,
  • de-bated,
  • running a flagpole,
  • racks brains,
  • bats it around,
  • de liberates,
  • put thinking cap,
  • de bating,
  • runs up flagpole,
  • run flagpole,
  • runs a flagpole,
  • ran a flagpole,
  • de-bating,
  • batting it around,
  • de bated,
  • batted it around,
  • running flagpole,
  • de-bate,
  • talked over,
  • putting on thinking cap,
  • de liberate,
  • hammered away at,
  • racking brains,
  • de bates,
  • ran up a flagpole,
  • de-bates,
  • putting thinking cap,
  • puts thinking cap,
  • runs flagpole,
  • running up flagpole,
  • de liberated,
  • de-liberates,
  • pours on,
  • de bate,
  • de-liberated,
  • runs up a flagpole,
  • pours it on,
  • ran up flagpole,
  • talks over,
  • run a flagpole,
  • de-liberate,
  • poured on,
  • hammering away at,
  • running up a flagpole,
  • racked brains.
  • experiment (verb)
  • puts the test,
  • futzes around,
  • tried on for size,
  • pro bed,
  • puts test,
  • fooled with,
  • practicing with,
  • re search,
  • futzing around,
  • putting to test,
  • pro-bed,
  • fools with,
  • put to test,
  • shakes down,
  • tries on for size,
  • putting test,
  • futzed around,
  • re-searched,
  • plays around with,
  • puts to test,
  • re-searching,
  • put the test,
  • re searching,
  • re-searches,
  • shook down,
  • put test,
  • putting to the test,
  • playing around with,
  • tried for size,
  • putting the test,
  • fooling with,
  • re searches,
  • re searched,
  • tries for size,
  • trying for size,
  • puts to the test,
  • trying on for size,
  • shaking down,
  • practices with,
  • practiced with.
  • gamble (verb)
  • shoot works,
  • cuts the cards,
  • took flyer,
  • tried luck,
  • trusted to luck,
  • tries one luck,
  • shot the moon,
  • making bet,
  • shot moon,
  • laying money on,
  • flipping the coin,
  • flips the coin,
  • trying one luck,
  • takes a flyer,
  • made a bet,
  • tries one's luck,
  • cuts cards,
  • tried one luck,
  • went for broke,
  • taking a flyer,
  • tries luck,
  • cut cards,
  • trusted luck,
  • tried one's luck,
  • takes flyer,
  • bucked the odds,
  • shooting moon,
  • flip coin,
  • bucking the odds,
  • goes for broke,
  • shooting the works,
  • lays money on,
  • trusting luck,
  • cutting cards,
  • shoots the moon,
  • shoot moon,
  • made bet,
  • shoots works,
  • take flyer,
  • make bet,
  • try luck,
  • laid money on,
  • shooting the moon,
  • flipping coin,
  • flipped coin,
  • trying luck,
  • trust luck,
  • puts trust in,
  • trusts to luck,
  • shooting works,
  • bucks the odds,
  • bucking odds,
  • trying one's luck,
  • try one luck,
  • shot the works,
  • flipped the coin,
  • shoots the works,
  • makes a bet,
  • tried ones luck,
  • makes bet,
  • buck odds,
  • bucks odds,
  • shot works,
  • shoots moon,
  • cutting the cards,
  • try ones luck,
  • trying ones luck,
  • putting trust in,
  • took a flyer,
  • trusts luck,
  • tries ones luck,
  • flips coin,
  • trusting to luck,
  • bucked odds,
  • taking flyer.
  • gamble, risk (verb)
  • margin up,
  • make book,
  • wildcat,
  • take a flier,
  • take a fling,
  • plunge,
  • play the market,
  • pour money into.
  • generalize (verb)
  • in duce,
  • staying clouds,
  • staid in clouds,
  • dis cover,
  • staid in the clouds,
  • staid clouds,
  • de rives,
  • was metaphysical,
  • dis-cover,
  • dis-cern,
  • stayed in the clouds,
  • dis-covered,
  • de-rived,
  • stayed the clouds,
  • art metaphysical,
  • staying the clouds,
  • staying in the clouds,
  • dis covering,
  • dis-covering,
  • dis covers,
  • de riving,
  • stay the clouds,
  • wast metaphysical,
  • is metaphysical,
  • stay clouds,
  • in-duces,
  • staid the clouds,
  • de rive,
  • in duces,
  • de-rive,
  • de-rives,
  • stays in the clouds,
  • de rived,
  • staying in clouds,
  • were metaphysical,
  • dis cern,
  • stays in clouds,
  • stayed in clouds,
  • wert metaphysical,
  • stays clouds,
  • stays the clouds,
  • in-duce,
  • stay in clouds,
  • de-riving,
  • stayed clouds,
  • dis-covers,
  • being metaphysical,
  • dis covered.
  • guess (verb)
  • jumps conclusion,
  • jumping a conclusion,
  • happened up on,
  • pre-tended,
  • took shot at,
  • taking shot at,
  • happening up on,
  • jumped conclusion,
  • happens up on,
  • jump to conclusion,
  • jump conclusion,
  • jumped a conclusion,
  • taking a stab at,
  • took a shot at,
  • jumping to a conclusion,
  • taking a shot at,
  • taking stab at,
  • take shot at,
  • jump a conclusion,
  • takes stab at,
  • pre-tending,
  • happening upon,
  • thinking likely,
  • jumped to conclusion,
  • jumping conclusion,
  • jumps to conclusion,
  • jumped to a conclusion,
  • guesstimating,
  • lumping it,
  • pre-dict,
  • pre tends,
  • takes a stab at,
  • took a stab at,
  • dare says,
  • takes shot at,
  • happens upon,
  • dare saying,
  • lumps it,
  • dare said,
  • happen up on,
  • thinks likely,
  • lumped it,
  • thought likely,
  • jumps a conclusion,
  • takes a shot at,
  • took stab at,
  • pre dict,
  • guesstimates,
  • take stab at,
  • pre tend,
  • pre tending,
  • jumps to a conclusion,
  • jumping to conclusion,
  • pre-tends.
  • hazard (verb)
  • taking plunge,
  • takes a plunge,
  • take plunge,
  • took plunge,
  • took a plunge,
  • taking a plunge,
  • takes plunge.
  • infer (verb)
  • reaches conclusion,
  • reaching conclusion,
  • reads in to,
  • arrives at,
  • figures out,
  • reads between lines,
  • reached conclusion,
  • drawing inference,
  • reading into,
  • reading in to,
  • draws inference,
  • read in to,
  • drew inference,
  • reads into,
  • reading between lines.
  • meditate (verb)
  • hast in mind,
  • entertained idea,
  • hath mind,
  • hadst mind,
  • puzzling over,
  • entertains idea,
  • hadst in mind,
  • entertaining idea,
  • have mind,
  • has mind,
  • puzzles over,
  • says oneself,
  • thought deeply,
  • had mind,
  • saying to oneself,
  • hath in mind,
  • says to oneself,
  • said oneself,
  • saying oneself,
  • had in mind,
  • thinks deeply,
  • hast mind,
  • having mind,
  • haddest in mind,
  • haddest mind,
  • said to oneself,
  • say oneself,
  • puzzled over,
  • having in mind.
  • muse (verb)
  • is lost in thought,
  • was lost thought,
  • build castles air,
  • wast lost thought,
  • being lost thought,
  • building castles air,
  • built castles air,
  • am lost in thought,
  • wast lost in thought,
  • art lost thought,
  • was lost in thought,
  • be lost thought,
  • were lost in thought,
  • builded castles air,
  • builds castles air,
  • built castles in air,
  • building castles in air,
  • being lost in thought,
  • is lost thought,
  • were lost thought,
  • wert lost thought,
  • builded castles in air,
  • art lost in thought,
  • wert lost in thought,
  • am lost thought,
  • builds castles in air.
  • ponder (verb)
  • giving thought to,
  • woolgathered,
  • woolgathers,
  • pipe dreamt,
  • pipe dreamed,
  • gives thought to,
  • gave thought to.
  • postulate (verb)
  • pre-mise,
  • pre mises,
  • putting forward,
  • pre mise,
  • pre-mises.
  • predict (verb)
  • portend,
  • reveal,
  • bode,
  • prophesy,
  • predict,
  • foreshadow,
  • forecast.
  • presume (verb)
  • de-pended,
  • de pend,
  • re-lying,
  • re lied,
  • de-pends,
  • de-pend,
  • de pended,
  • jump gun,
  • de pends,
  • re-lied,
  • re lying,
  • de-pending,
  • de pending.
  • presuppose (verb)
  • pre supposing,
  • pre supposes,
  • pre supposed,
  • pre-supposes,
  • pre-supposing,
  • pre suppose,
  • pre-suppose,
  • pre-supposed.
  • ratiocinate (verb)
  • puts one thinking cap,
  • putting on ones thinking cap,
  • put on ones thinking cap,
  • putting ones thinking cap,
  • puts ones thinking cap,
  • puts on ones thinking cap,
  • puts on one thinking cap,
  • puts one's thinking cap,
  • put one thinking cap,
  • putting one thinking cap,
  • putting on one's thinking cap,
  • putting on one thinking cap,
  • put ones thinking cap,
  • puts on one's thinking cap,
  • put on one thinking cap,
  • putting one's thinking cap,
  • put one's thinking cap.
  • reason (verb)
  • de-duct,
  • drawing conclusion,
  • re-solves,
  • de ducts,
  • draws from,
  • drew from,
  • syllogizes,
  • drew conclusion,
  • threshed out,
  • re-solve,
  • de-ducts,
  • drawing from,
  • draws conclusion,
  • thinking through,
  • Syllogizing,
  • de duct,
  • de-ducted,
  • threshes out,
  • re solves,
  • thinks through,
  • Syllogized,
  • de-ducting,
  • de ducted,
  • re solve,
  • re-solving,
  • re-solved,
  • threshing out,
  • de ducting.
  • risk (verb)
  • hangs by thread,
  • going out of depth,
  • defies danger,
  • taking header,
  • putting in jeopardy,
  • go out ones depth,
  • going out of ones depth,
  • running chance,
  • going out one's depth,
  • puts jeopardy,
  • go out of depth,
  • go out of ones depth,
  • expose danger,
  • goes out depth,
  • going out of one depth,
  • hangs by a thread,
  • going out of one's depth,
  • goes out of one's depth,
  • go out of one depth,
  • defying danger,
  • left luck,
  • leaped before looking,
  • went out of one depth,
  • went out one depth,
  • took the liberty,
  • were caught short,
  • am caught short,
  • goes out of one depth,
  • hung by thread,
  • goes out ones depth,
  • are caught short,
  • went out ones depth,
  • leaving luck,
  • went out of depth,
  • leave luck,
  • leaving to luck,
  • hanged by a thread,
  • putting jeopardy,
  • takes a header,
  • went out depth,
  • leaping before looking,
  • going out depth,
  • go out depth,
  • exposes danger,
  • goes out of ones depth,
  • leaved to luck,
  • goes out one's depth,
  • taking a header,
  • hung by a thread,
  • wert caught short,
  • hanged by thread,
  • go out one depth,
  • took header,
  • put jeopardy,
  • exposing danger,
  • runs chance,
  • puts in jeopardy,
  • exposed danger,
  • run chance,
  • takes header,
  • goes out of depth,
  • went out of one's depth,
  • exposes to danger,
  • took liberty,
  • wast caught short,
  • was caught short,
  • left to luck,
  • going out one depth,
  • takes the liberty,
  • being caught short,
  • goes out one depth,
  • hang by thread,
  • leaps before looking,
  • leaves luck,
  • ran chance,
  • is caught short,
  • exposing to danger,
  • ran the chance,
  • art caught short,
  • takes liberty,
  • taking the liberty,
  • runs the chance,
  • going out ones depth,
  • leapt before looking,
  • running the chance,
  • took a header,
  • leaves to luck,
  • leaved luck,
  • went out of ones depth,
  • went out one's depth,
  • take header,
  • go out one's depth,
  • defied danger,
  • taking liberty.
  • suppose (verb)
  • philosophize,
  • fantasize.
  • surmise (verb)
  • sur-mise,
  • takes a shot,
  • took shot,
  • sur mises,
  • takes stab,
  • venturing guess,
  • venture guess,
  • taking a stab,
  • ventures a guess,
  • took a shot,
  • take stab,
  • takes a stab,
  • takes shot,
  • ventured a guess,
  • risked assuming,
  • risking assuming,
  • sur-mises,
  • ventures guess,
  • taking stab,
  • ventured guess,
  • taking a shot,
  • take shot,
  • risks assuming,
  • taking shot,
  • took stab,
  • took a stab,
  • venturing a guess,
  • sur mise.
  • suspect (verb)
  • hast doubt,
  • mis trust,
  • has doubt,
  • dis-believe,
  • hadst doubt,
  • smelling rat,
  • dis believed,
  • smelled a rat,
  • dis-believing,
  • mis trusted,
  • smelt rat,
  • having doubt,
  • harboring suspicion,
  • smell rat,
  • mis-trust,
  • dis believes,
  • smells a rat,
  • thinking probable,
  • mis-trusted,
  • smelled rat,
  • mis trusts,
  • had doubt,
  • thought probable,
  • dis believe,
  • smells rat,
  • mis-trusting,
  • haddest doubt,
  • dis-believed,
  • hath doubt,
  • dis believing,
  • thinks probable,
  • harbored suspicion,
  • mis trusting,
  • dis-believes,
  • harbors suspicion,
  • smelt a rat.
  • theorize (verb)
  • pro-pound,
  • pro-pounds,
  • pro pounded,
  • pro-pounding,
  • pro-pounded,
  • pro pounds,
  • pro pounding.
  • think (verb)
  • concentrate,
  • weigh,
  • imagine,
  • study,
  • calculate,
  • analyze,
  • cerebrate,
  • appraise,
  • evaluate,
  • debate,
  • envision.
  • think about deeply and theorize (verb)
  • pipe-dream,
  • dope out.
  • try (verb)
  • hadst whack,
  • having a shot,
  • hadst a shot,
  • did one's best,
  • haddest a whack,
  • hast go,
  • dost best,
  • haddest whack,
  • have whack,
  • do ones best,
  • making an attempt,
  • hast a crack,
  • knocking oneself out,
  • hath a crack,
  • hast a go,
  • hast stab,
  • hast a stab,
  • lifted a finger,
  • makes an attempt,
  • drives for,
  • drove for,
  • doest best,
  • has a stab,
  • doing best,
  • have shot,
  • having a whack,
  • having whack,
  • doth one's best,
  • didst best,
  • hast shot,
  • makes effort,
  • lifting a finger,
  • hast whack,
  • made effort,
  • had stab,
  • driving for,
  • makes pass at,
  • doest one's best,
  • had go,
  • doeth best,
  • hadst a stab,
  • chips away at,
  • hadst a go,
  • making effort,
  • hadst stab,
  • having shot,
  • do best,
  • have stab,
  • had whack,
  • doest ones best,
  • vies for,
  • drave for,
  • shot for,
  • hath crack,
  • haddest a crack,
  • doth ones best,
  • had shot,
  • making attempt,
  • doeth ones best,
  • had a whack,
  • made bid,
  • had crack,
  • has stab,
  • lifted finger,
  • doing one's best,
  • hath shot,
  • did one best,
  • hast a shot,
  • putting oneself out,
  • making pass at,
  • hath a go,
  • does best,
  • doth best,
  • made an effort,
  • hath a shot,
  • doing one best,
  • hath a stab,
  • hadst crack,
  • does one best,
  • didst one best,
  • hadst a whack,
  • has crack,
  • having a crack,
  • goes all out,
  • make bid,
  • makes a bid,
  • making an effort,
  • make pass at,
  • makes an effort,
  • haddest a go,
  • chipping away at,
  • make attempt,
  • has a shot,
  • had a stab,
  • makes attempt,
  • exerted oneself,
  • knocks oneself out,
  • hath whack,
  • do one best,
  • having crack,
  • has a crack,
  • having stab,
  • makes a pass at,
  • had a crack,
  • exerting oneself,
  • hath a whack,
  • having a go,
  • hast a whack,
  • haddest a stab,
  • have crack,
  • vying for,
  • makes bid,
  • shoots for,
  • didst ones best,
  • knocked oneself out,
  • didst one's best,
  • haddest go,
  • making a bid,
  • has go,
  • haddest shot,
  • dost one best,
  • doeth one best,
  • haddest crack,
  • have go,
  • hath go,
  • exerts oneself,
  • vied for,
  • made attempt,
  • making bid,
  • has a go,
  • dost one's best,
  • haddest stab,
  • did ones best,
  • has whack,
  • has shot,
  • hadst go,
  • puts oneself out,
  • went all out,
  • haddest a shot,
  • made a bid,
  • hadst shot,
  • made an attempt,
  • hadst a crack,
  • shooting for,
  • dost ones best,
  • hath stab,
  • did best,
  • does ones best,
  • made a pass at,
  • having a stab,
  • went after,
  • does one's best,
  • making a pass at,
  • made pass at,
  • doing ones best,
  • doth one best,
  • has a whack,
  • lift finger,
  • lifting finger,
  • had a shot,
  • lifts finger,
  • doest one best,
  • hast crack,
  • lifts a finger,
  • having go,
  • doeth one's best.
  • venture (verb)
  • makes a stab at,
  • take crack at,
  • playing market,
  • lays open,
  • made a stab at,
  • play market,
  • made stab at,
  • played market,
  • makes stab at,
  • ex posed,
  • ex-posed,
  • plays the market,
  • ex-pose,
  • making a stab at,
  • played the market,
  • make stab at,
  • ex pose,
  • making stab at,
  • plays market,
  • playing the market,
  • ex-posing.
  • wager (verb)
  • spec'd,
  • spec'ing,
  • takes action,
  • laid a wager,
  • lays a wager,
  • specing,
  • lays wager,
  • laid wager,
  • took action,
  • taking action,
  • lay wager,
  • specced,
  • laying wager,
  • laying a wager,
  • speccing.
  • wonder (verb)
  • asked oneself,
  • am curious,
  • are inquisitive,
  • were curious,
  • asks oneself,
  • in-quired,
  • wast curious,
  • was curious,
  • in quiring,
  • wast inquisitive,
  • in-quire,
  • art inquisitive,
  • in quired,
  • is inquisitive,
  • is curious,
  • being inquisitive,
  • being curious,
  • are curious,
  • were inquisitive,
  • wert curious,
  • wert inquisitive,
  • in-quires,
  • in quire,
  • in-quiring,
  • in quires,
  • asking oneself,
  • art curious.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • plow back,
  • undercapitalize,
  • invest,
  • recapitalize,
  • pump into,
  • pay into,
  • ratiocinate.
  •
  • underwrite,
  • lock up,
  • plow into.
  •
  • put into,
  • lock in.
  •
  • sink.
  •
  • spread.
  • believe
  • repute,
  • sense,
  • feels,
  • presuppose.
  • chance
  • playing with fire,
  • stick neck out,
  • put eggs in one basket,
  • put it on the line,
  • Jeopardized,
  • draw lots,
  • skate on thin ice,
  • sticking one's neck out,
  • run the risk,
  • go out on a limb,
  • play with fire,
  • drawing lots,
  • roll the dice,
  • have a fling at,
  • stick one's neck out,
  • wildcatting,
  • wildcatted,
  • take shot in the dark.
  • create
  • conceive.
  • deliberate
  • knock around,
  • rack brains,
  • run up a flagpole,
  • run up flagpole,
  • pour it on,
  • talk over,
  • hammer away at,
  • turn over,
  • put on thinking cap,
  • bat it around,
  • pour on.
  • experiment
  • put to the test,
  • futz around,
  • try for size,
  • practice with,
  • explore,
  • try on for size,
  • shake down,
  • Re-search,
  • fool with,
  • play around with,
  • try out,
  • trying on,
  • explores,
  • played around with.
  • generalize
  • Vapored,
  • be metaphysical,
  • stay in the clouds,
  • vaporing.
  • Other relevant words:
  • puts faith in,
  • play the ponies,
  • read between lines,
  • drive for,
  • infer,
  • bank,
  • sweat out,
  • hang by a thread,
  • became pregnant,
  • eat one's heart out,
  • lays away,
  • try,
  • trump up,
  • lament,
  • dwell upon,
  • Lotting,
  • take a chance,
  • gamble,
  • postulate,
  • formulated,
  • Massing,
  • deliberate,
  • read into,
  • take a stab at,
  • lays aside,
  • looks at,
  • brood over,
  • suspect,
  • Depicturing,
  • making a bet,
  • be inclined to think,
  • think over,
  • guessing,
  • Periled,
  • thinks about,
  • tossed around,
  • play against,
  • trusted,
  • allow for,
  • lay a wager,
  • take a header,
  • reflect,
  • Specking,
  • suspected,
  • take the liberty,
  • thought up,
  • have sneaking suspicion,
  • provide for,
  • Mounded,
  • jeopardies,
  • ponder,
  • went ahead,
  • parlay,
  • try one's luck,
  • run the chance,
  • smelling a rat,
  • Mounding,
  • woolgathering,
  • hanging by a thread,
  • expose to danger,
  • specd,
  • size up,
  • deal with,
  • took for granted,
  • laid aside,
  • Hilled,
  • lump it,
  • toss up,
  • surmise,
  • thinking of,
  • experiment,
  • give thought to,
  • be afraid,
  • thinking out,
  • looking at,
  • do one's best,
  • dreams of,
  • have a whack,
  • dwelling upon,
  • thought over,
  • Adventuring,
  • spec,
  • dare say,
  • toss around,
  • pipe dreaming,
  • muse,
  • hazard,
  • laying down,
  • Dicing,
  • thinking about,
  • Postulating,
  • think likely,
  • reflected upon,
  • shoot the moon,
  • think of,
  • vie for,
  • jump to a conclusion,
  • sweating out,
  • make effort,
  • buy in on,
  • make bold,
  • entertain idea,
  • look at,
  • becoming pregnant,
  • taking for granted,
  • buck the odds,
  • has a hunch,
  • pluck up,
  • puzzle over,
  • Perpend,
  • chipped away at,
  • believe,
  • Postulated,
  • sigh,
  • going all out,
  • take heart,
  • cut the cards,
  • thinking deeply,
  • thought of,
  • estimate,
  • exposed to danger,
  • jeopardying,
  • guesstimate,
  • Imaged,
  • fathom,
  • take liberty,
  • think up,
  • sweat over,
  • take a shot,
  • reflect upon,
  • subscribe to,
  • mulling over,
  • get the idea,
  • Depictured,
  • have a stab,
  • mulls over,
  • draw inference,
  • exert oneself,
  • stash,
  • understand,
  • harbor suspicion,
  • muse over,
  • think deeply,
  • dreaming of,
  • had a go,
  • thinking over,
  • jeopardied,
  • chip away at,
  • premise,
  • repine,
  • glooming,
  • see about,
  • put on the line,
  • woolgather,
  • flip the coin,
  • guess,
  • think,
  • thought about,
  • specked,
  • going for broke,
  • be in brown study,
  • take action,
  • Endeavoring,
  • pondering,
  • Perilled,
  • chafe inwardly,
  • lay down,
  • Lotted,
  • theorize,
  • cogitate,
  • assent to,
  • try one's hand,
  • go out on limb,
  • aspire to,
  • cool out,
  • put in jeopardy,
  • put forward,
  • Volunteering,
  • venture a guess,
  • has in mind,
  • have a hunch,
  • Gloomed,
  • lay away,
  • lift a finger,
  • reason,
  • lay aside,
  • thought out,
  • be lost in thought,
  • think out,
  • eat heart out,
  • have doubt,
  • imaging,
  • guesstimated,
  • arrived at,
  • scanning,
  • put by,
  • fall for,
  • is afraid,
  • brood,
  • arrive at,
  • meditate on,
  • chew over,
  • spitball,
  • generalize,
  • have a crack,
  • count upon,
  • allowing for,
  • Volunteered,
  • Adventured,
  • become pregnant,
  • Meditated,
  • take a stab,
  • take a flyer,
  • figured out,
  • put faith in,
  • aspiring to,
  • happen upon,
  • Scanned,
  • meditate,
  • put money on,
  • make a bet,
  • have in mind,
  • spitballs,
  • lay money on,
  • smell a rat,
  • leap before looking,
  • take for granted,
  • make an effort,
  • knock oneself out,
  • subscribed to,
  • make an attempt,
  • spark,
  • envisions,
  • shoot for,
  • pony up,
  • predicate,
  • arriving at,
  • put trust in,
  • flirt with,
  • reflects,
  • kicking around,
  • have a shot,
  • laying odds,
  • dreamt of,
  • provided for,
  • contemplate,
  • stew over,
  • reckon with,
  • take a shot at,
  • anteing,
  • fathoms,
  • go out of one's depth,
  • chance,
  • take under advisement,
  • build castles in air,
  • grieve,
  • takes for granted,
  • ponies up,
  • opine,
  • sock away,
  • presume,
  • bet,
  • wonder,
  • defy danger,
  • suppose,
  • think probable,
  • noodle around,
  • play,
  • trust to luck,
  • assume,
  • mull over,
  • say to oneself,
  • dare,
  • go all out,
  • put on one's thinking cap,
  • kick around,
  • consider,
  • take a plunge,
  • Periling,
  • dreamed of,
  • be caught short,
  • have a go,
  • happened upon,
  • hanging by thread,
  • Hilling,
  • Gamed,
  • think upon,
  • leave to luck,
  • revolved,
  • puts forward,
  • wager,
  • Depicture,
  • specs,
  • looked at,
  • figure out,
  • be bold,
  • flash on,
  • laid down,
  • revolve,
  • gaming,
  • shoot the works,
  • kicked around,
  • risk assuming,
  • sizing up,
  • play for,
  • dream of,
  • make a bid,
  • Perilling,
  • anted,
  • go after,
  • have hunch,
  • Diced,
  • putting faith in,
  • go for broke,
  • make a pass at,
  • tempt fortune,
  • put oneself out,
  • keep in mind,
  • reach conclusion,
  • think about,
  • taking chance,
  • lay odds,
  • depictures,
  • posits.
  • reason
  • thresh out,
  • thought through,
  • draw from,
  • draw conclusion,
  • think through,
  • syllogize.
  • suppose
  • dare-say,
  • supposes.
  • think
  • intellectualized,
  • ideate,
  • use head,
  • sorting out,
  • rack one's brains,
  • intellectualizing,
  • sort out,
  • sorted out,
  • Intellectualize,
  • take under consideration,
  • stop to consider,
  • logicalize,
  • thought.
  • venture
  • make a stab at,
  • laying open,
  • get down,
  • laid open,
  • got down,
  • lay open,
  • Ventured.
  • wonder
  • was inquisitive.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • puzzle,
  • plunge in,
  • pore,
  • prefigure,
  • put,
  • toy with,
  • bethink,
  • contrive,
  • raffle off,
  • hazard a guess,
  • cast a nativity,
  • hallucinate,
  • draw straws,
  • call,
  • make a scoop,
  • straddle,
  • conclude,
  • gather,
  • operate,
  • cut lots,
  • con over,
  • attempt,
  • forebode,
  • beat one's brains,
  • endeavor,
  • play out,
  • reconstructed,
  • introspect,
  • hold on,
  • adventure,
  • stake,
  • daresay,
  • perceive,
  • sport,
  • make an investment,
  • fantasise,
  • query,
  • reverberate,
  • chew the cud,
  • attend,
  • forge,
  • game,
  • dream up,
  • hold,
  • say,
  • financier,
  • explicate,
  • hariolate,
  • figure,
  • inquire,
  • feel,
  • toss,
  • dope,
  • Wis,
  • review,
  • psych out,
  • ply,
  • be inquisitive,
  • scalp,
  • sell short,
  • vaticinate,
  • be abstracted,
  • cogitable,
  • bucket,
  • affect,
  • excogitate,
  • digest,
  • regard,
  • realize,
  • strive,
  • appreciate,
  • judge,
  • run it up flagpole,
  • divine,
  • lot,
  • fancy,
  • fortune-tell,
  • buy in,
  • suggest,
  • corner the market,
  • trade,
  • buy and sell,
  • cast a horoscope,
  • prognosticate,
  • determine,
  • Soothsay,
  • comprehend,
  • reckon,
  • punt,
  • place,
  • play over,
  • be curious,
  • ruminate,
  • tell fortunes,
  • bucketshop,
  • guestimate,
  • discover,
  • pipe dream,
  • read,
  • scheme,
  • shoot craps,
  • farm out,
  • call the turn,
  • envisage,
  • shine,
  • ask oneself,
  • presage,
  • take it,
  • intuit,
  • deem,
  • play with,
  • retrace,
  • reconstruct,
  • foresee,
  • discuss,
  • see,
  • call it,
  • deduce,
  • dream,
  • head trip,
  • plow back into,
  • be played,
  • theorise,
  • Trow,
  • move about,
  • speculation,
  • wonder about,
  • chew on,
  • cast lots,
  • essay,
  • subcontract,
  • invest in,
  • animadvert,
  • belong,
  • tempt,
  • Presurmise,
  • use one's head,
  • take a position,
  • brainstorm,
  • pyramid,
  • conjure up,
  • opiate,
  • wheel and deal,
  • be short,
  • stag,
  • ponder over,
  • buy into,
  • raffle,
  • Reinvest,
  • ziggurat,
  • posit,
  • foretell.

Paraphrases for Speculate:

• Independent

  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    anticipate, argue, assume, believe, presume, suggest, suppose.
  • Verb, base form
    anticipate, assume, interrogate, predict, presume, suggest, suppose, surmise, wonder.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    gamble.

Homophones for Speculate:

• specialty, sphacelate, speckled, spikelet, speciality, shopsoiled.

Hypernym for Speculate:

• v.

  • communication
    pretend, suppose, say, venture, hazard, guess.

Hyponym for Speculate:

• v.

  • communication
    reason.