Synonyms for Speculative:

• adj.

  •academic (adjective)
  • formalistic.
  •chancy (adjective)
  • haphazard,
  • coin toss,
  • causeless,
  • aimless,
  • hit-or-miss,
  • fluky,
  • lucky,
  • random,
  • potluck,
  • chance,
  • hazardous,
  • accidental,
  • iffy,
  • Fluctuant.
  •contemplative (adjective)
  • in tent,
  • more reflecting,
  • in brown study,
  • introspective,
  • more pondering,
  • most reflecting,
  • pondering,
  • most pondering.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • parlous,
  • on collision course,
  • portentous,
  • Jeopardous,
  • shaky,
  • dangersome.
  •divinatory (adjective)
  • hypothetic.
  •doctrinaire (adjective)
  • stiff-necked,
  • dictative,
  • doctrinaire,
  • stubborn.
  •doubtful (adjective)
  • in-decisive,
  • most impugnable,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • in definite,
  • in-definite,
  • dis-reputable,
  • in conclusive,
  • far fetched,
  • un-decided,
  • dis reputable,
  • in-distinct,
  • un-easy,
  • dubitable,
  • un easier,
  • un decided,
  • most doubtable,
  • hazy,
  • un-settled,
  • in distinct,
  • in determinate,
  • un-confirmed,
  • un-easiest,
  • un confirmed,
  • un easy,
  • uneasy,
  • in decisive,
  • in-conclusive,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • un settled,
  • in-determinate,
  • more doubtable,
  • un-easier,
  • impugnable,
  • more impugnable,
  • un sure,
  • un-sure,
  • un easiest.
  •dreamy (adjective)
  • more introvertive,
  • un real,
  • most phantasmagorical,
  • mis-tier,
  • out of world,
  • more lulling,
  • un substantial,
  • more relaxing,
  • soothing,
  • most introvertive,
  • mis tier,
  • in-tangible,
  • in tangible,
  • preoccupied,
  • un-substantial,
  • most relaxing,
  • un-real,
  • pre occupied,
  • out this world,
  • misty,
  • most daydreaming,
  • pre-occupied,
  • more daydreaming,
  • more phantasmagorical,
  • most lulling,
  • out world.
  •empirical (adjective)
  • more experient,
  • more observational,
  • most experient,
  • empiric,
  • most observational.
  •excogitative (adjective)
  • most contrivable,
  • most devisable,
  • ex-cogitative,
  • more devisable,
  • Devisable,
  • de liberative,
  • Contrivable,
  • ex cogitative,
  • more contrivable,
  • de-liberative.
  •experimental (adjective)
  • experiential,
  • trial-and-error,
  • preliminary,
  • unproved,
  • probationary,
  • developmental,
  • on approval,
  • provisional,
  • tester,
  • first stage,
  • unconcluded,
  • under probation.
  •exploratory (adjective)
  • experimental.
  •hypothetical (adjective)
  • more postulated,
  • pre supposed,
  • most contestable,
  • more conjecturable,
  • most presupposed,
  • more presupposed,
  • pre tending,
  • more refutable,
  • stochastic,
  • most concocted,
  • more concocted,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • hypo thetical,
  • provisory,
  • pre-tending,
  • most postulated,
  • pre-supposed,
  • most stochastic,
  • most pretending,
  • hypothetical,
  • more stochastic,
  • Postulated,
  • more contestable,
  • more pretending,
  • most conjecturable,
  • most refutable.
  •illegal (adjective)
  • wildcat.
  •imaginary (adjective)
  • fantastic,
  • imaginary,
  • inventive,
  • conceptual,
  • suppositional.
  •impractical/impracticable (adjective)
  • in-applicable,
  • more impracticable,
  • non viable,
  • most nogo,
  • more inoperable,
  • most inoperable,
  • un wise,
  • in applicable,
  • starryeyed,
  • un-feasible,
  • wont fly,
  • un-wiser,
  • un wisest,
  • most no go,
  • un-wisest,
  • irrealizable,
  • in operable,
  • more nonviable,
  • more unbusinesslike,
  • out question,
  • more no go,
  • more ivorytower,
  • most no-go,
  • un-serviceable,
  • most ivorytower,
  • most irrealizable,
  • non functional,
  • most unbusinesslike,
  • in-operable,
  • not prayer,
  • un wiser,
  • out the question,
  • more no-go,
  • in feasible,
  • in-efficacious,
  • un attainable,
  • un feasible,
  • more ivory tower,
  • most ivory tower,
  • most ivory-tower,
  • most nonviable,
  • more nogo,
  • infeasible,
  • most nonfunctional,
  • most unserviceable,
  • more nonfunctional,
  • in efficacious,
  • in-feasible,
  • un-attainable,
  • un serviceable,
  • ivorytower,
  • most infeasible,
  • starry eyed,
  • non-viable,
  • more unserviceable,
  • more irrealizable,
  • more ivory-tower,
  • un-wise,
  • un-businesslike,
  • more infeasible,
  • un businesslike.
  •inquiring (adjective)
  • outwardlooking,
  • most outwardlooking,
  • outward looking,
  • in quiring,
  • most fact-finding,
  • most outward-looking,
  • most catechistic,
  • more examining,
  • most interested,
  • most outward looking,
  • more outwardlooking,
  • more factfinding,
  • most fact finding,
  • more questioning,
  • most factfinding,
  • more outward looking,
  • more fact-finding,
  • most questioning,
  • fact finding,
  • more heuristic,
  • outward-looking,
  • most socratic,
  • more socratic,
  • more investigatory,
  • more outward-looking,
  • most examining,
  • more interested,
  • in-quiring,
  • factfinding,
  • most heuristic,
  • more fact finding,
  • more catechistic,
  • most investigatory.
  •inquisitive (adjective)
  • more challenging,
  • intrusive,
  • most scrutinizing,
  • meddlesome,
  • more big eyed,
  • most big-eyed,
  • most challenging,
  • more bigeyed,
  • inquisitorial,
  • more meddling,
  • most meddling,
  • more scrutinizing,
  • more peering,
  • sifting,
  • more snooping,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • more poking,
  • most snooping,
  • big eyed,
  • more sifting,
  • most peering,
  • most poking,
  • most sifting,
  • most big eyed,
  • Peering,
  • most bigeyed,
  • bigeyed,
  • more big-eyed.
  •moony (adjective)
  • more woolgathering,
  • woolgathering,
  • most woolgathering.
  •pensive (adjective)
  • with drawn,
  • with-drawn,
  • more ruminating,
  • most ruminating.
  •reflective (adjective)
  • more cogitating,
  • most reasoning,
  • de liberate,
  • more reasoning,
  • de-liberate,
  • most cogitating.
  •risky (adjective)
  • on spot,
  • out limb,
  • off the deep end,
  • hanging by a thread,
  • out a limb,
  • end-angered,
  • end angered,
  • wideopen.
  •ruminative (adjective)
  • lost in thought,
  • philosophic.
  •suppositional (adjective)
  • Prophesied,
  • presumed.
  •tentative (adjective)
  • more provisionary,
  • subject change,
  • pro visionary,
  • pro-visionary,
  • de-pendent,
  • de pendent,
  • most provisionary.
  •unapt (adjective)
  • un likeliest,
  • un-likelier,
  • un-aptest,
  • un apter,
  • un-likely,
  • un likely,
  • un aptest,
  • un-apter,
  • un likelier.
  •uncertain (adjective)
  • touch and go,
  • unfixed.
  •unnegotiable (adjective)
  • un-negotiable,
  • un negotiable.
  •unusable (adjective)
  • un-usable,
  • un usable.
  •unworkable (adjective)
  • un-workable,
  • un workable.
  •visionary (adjective)
  • in clouds,
  • in the clouds.
  •wondering (adjective)
  • guessing.

• n.

  •
  • around,
  • about,
  • conservative.
  •
  • thinking.
  •
  • abstract.
  •curious (noun)
  • curious.
  •insecure (noun)
  • insecure.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • impressionistic,
  • cut in,
  • unproven,
  • speculation,
  • uncorroborated,
  • earner,
  • some,
  • perhaps,
  • arbitrage,
  • inconclusive,
  • reputed,
  • cash cow,
  • presumptive,
  • prima facie,
  • supposed,
  • profiteer,
  • rate of return,
  • cream off,
  • commercialize,
  • purported,
  • supposedly,
  • pay,
  • seeming,
  • outwardly,
  • alleged,
  • cogitative,
  • disputable,
  • rack up,
  • rumored,
  • debatable,
  • ostensible,
  • bingo,
  • specious,
  • groundless,
  • profitability,
  • ring up,
  • profits warning,
  • anecdotal,
  • trumped-up,
  • putative,
  • allegedly,
  • ruminative,
  • baseless,
  • breakeven,
  • fallacious,
  • deniable,
  • factitious,
  • implausible,
  • profit from,
  • thoughtful,
  • unsupported,
  • unsubstantiated,
  • unfounded,
  • cash in,
  • misguided,
  • boom,
  • apocryphal,
  • What,
  • fair,
  • apparently,
  • ill-founded,
  • misleading,
  • maybe,
  • far-fetched,
  • lose,
  • rake off,
  • commercial,
  • seemingly,
  • unscientific,
  • Misconceived,
  • commercially,
  • commercialism,
  • commercialized,
  • unconfirmed,
  • deliberative,
  • profit center.
  •
  • unlikely,
  • yield,
  • spurious,
  • transparent,
  • bring in,
  • false,
  • equivocal,
  • lame,
  • subjective,
  • illogical.
  •
  • ruinous,
  • intuitive,
  • surface.
  •
  • invalid.
  •Other relevant words:
  • import,
  • deduction,
  • in dispute,
  • visionary,
  • sceptical,
  • confutable,
  • unsound,
  • Contemplating,
  • inference,
  • platonic,
  • pathetic,
  • implication,
  • conceptualized,
  • ethereal,
  • logical,
  • unsafe,
  • rational,
  • venturous,
  • Conjectured,
  • ratiocinative,
  • dubious,
  • flimsy,
  • forged,
  • analytical,
  • hypothesized,
  • gratuitous,
  • dicey,
  • Probatory,
  • defective,
  • reflection,
  • quizzical,
  • Speculated,
  • deductive,
  • corollary,
  • ivory tower,
  • generalise,
  • cut-in,
  • suspect,
  • venture,
  • test,
  • probative,
  • intellectual,
  • hairy,
  • outcome,
  • moot,
  • aired,
  • questionable,
  • theoretically,
  • in question,
  • open to question,
  • unfit,
  • derive,
  • analytic,
  • indeterminate,
  • reflecting,
  • rake-off,
  • figure out,
  • chimerical,
  • romantic,
  • philosophical,
  • studious,
  • unjustifiable,
  • expect,
  • figure,
  • account,
  • in a brown study,
  • deduce,
  • speculativeness,
  • Concentrative,
  • noetic,
  • formularized,
  • sorry,
  • tenuous,
  • speculatively,
  • Riskful,
  • infer,
  • armchair,
  • trial,
  • expectancy,
  • reasoning,
  • draw,
  • untested,
  • uncalled-for,
  • purport,
  • Meditating,
  • expectation,
  • unreal,
  • Deliberating,
  • mental,
  • skeptical,
  • doubting,
  • Controvertible,
  • adventurous,
  • uncollectible,
  • problematical,
  • Concentrating,
  • serious,
  • idealized,
  • gamble,
  • Academical,
  • exploratory,
  • unreasonable,
  • cognitive,
  • evolve,
  • end,
  • touch-and-go,
  • Museful,
  • ideal,
  • idealistic,
  • unrealistic,
  • Postulatory,
  • deduct,
  • Unpractical,
  • arguable,
  • Docimastic,
  • open to doubt,
  • Excogitating,
  • descend,
  • wistful,
  • illusory,
  • controversial,
  • ratiocination,
  • meditation,
  • imagined,
  • supposable,
  • suppositious,
  • in the balance,
  • unsure,
  • aleatory,
  • venturesome,
  • Guessed,
  • product,
  • Surmised,
  • fancy,
  • anticipation,
  • consequence,
  • unpredictable,
  • unwarranted,
  • regretful,
  • problematic,
  • immoral,
  • assumed,
  • fanciful,
  • effect,
  • tough,
  • unresolved,
  • divine,
  • Mistakable,
  • Ruminating,
  • feel,
  • unsettled,
  • unverified,
  • sober,
  • indefinite,
  • conceptive,
  • unreliable,
  • guesswork,
  • in doubt,
  • construe,
  • aerial,
  • suspicious,
  • extrapolate,
  • suspected,
  • Mooted,
  • showing curiosity,
  • unjustified,
  • Supposing,
  • big,
  • Suppositive,
  • hard,
  • vague,
  • thought,
  • not practical,
  • utopian,
  • enlarge,
  • elicit,
  • conjectural,
  • explain,
  • result,
  • ruminant,
  • untrustworthy,
  • at issue,
  • sedate,
  • airy,
  • ideative,
  • belief,
  • musing,
  • nonstandard,
  • unforeseeable,
  • closet,
  • deem,
  • educe,
  • importance,
  • hypothesis,
  • given,
  • Unreasoned.

Paraphrases for Speculative:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    counterfactual, conjectural, putative, theoretical, hypothesis, opportunistic, notional, virtual.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    hypothetical, speculation, hedge.

Antonyms for Speculative:

• adj.

  • theoretical
    safe.
  • Other antonyms:
    factual, clinical, definite, real, defined, observational, validated, confirmed, tested, attested, verified, authenticated, sound, distinct, incurious, practical, demonstrated, time-tested, empiric, established, concrete, substantiated, proven, actual.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    applied.