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Pronunciation:
[ spˈɛkjʊlətˌɪv], [ spˈɛkjʊlətˌɪv], [ s_p_ˈɛ_k_j_ʊ_l_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]
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Similar words for speculative:
- academic (adjective)
- chancy (adjective)
- contemplative (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- divinatory (adjective)
- doctrinaire (adjective)
- doubtful (adjective)
- dreamy (adjective)
- empirical (adjective)
- excogitative (adjective)
- experimental (adjective)
- exploratory (adjective)
- hypothetical (adjective)
- illegal (adjective)
- imaginary (adjective)
- impractical/impracticable (adjective)
- inquiring (adjective)
- inquisitive (adjective)
- moony (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pensive (adjective)
- reflective (adjective)
- risky (adjective)
- ruminative (adjective)
- suppositional (adjective)
- tentative (adjective)
- unapt (adjective)
- uncertain (adjective)
- unnegotiable (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- unworkable (adjective)
- visionary (adjective)
- wondering (adjective)
- curious (noun)
- insecure (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Speculative:
adj.
• academic (adjective) • chancy (adjective)- haphazard,
- coin toss,
- causeless,
- aimless,
- hit-or-miss,
- fluky,
- lucky,
- random,
- potluck,
- chance,
- hazardous,
- accidental,
- iffy,
- Fluctuant.
- in tent,
- more reflecting,
- in brown study,
- introspective,
- more pondering,
- most reflecting,
- pondering,
- most pondering.
- 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.
- 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.
- most contrivable,
- most devisable,
- ex-cogitative,
- more devisable,
- Devisable,
- de liberative,
- Contrivable,
- ex cogitative,
- more contrivable,
- de-liberative.
- experiential,
- trial-and-error,
- preliminary,
- unproved,
- probationary,
- developmental,
- on approval,
- provisional,
- tester,
- first stage,
- unconcluded,
- under probation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pensive,
- empirical,
- unserviceable,
- in theory,
- heuristic,
- not settled,
- moony,
- ideational,
- fact-finding,
- chancy,
- ivory-tower,
- on slippery ground,
- reflective,
- no-go,
- open for consideration,
- unworkable,
- NOGO,
- Unapt,
- theoretical,
- wondering,
- playing with fire,
- pure,
- tentative,
- off deep end,
- not final,
- excogitative,
- doubtful,
- going for broke,
- as a premise,
- hanging by thread,
- out of question,
- inquiring,
- provisionary,
- ideological,
- theoretic,
- won't fly,
- phantasmagorical,
- unusable,
- introvertive,
- refutable,
- dreamy,
- on thin ice,
- Unbusinesslike,
- uncertain,
- big-eyed,
- in the abstract,
- fraught with danger,
- no go,
- investigatory,
- on the spot,
- impractical,
- wide open,
- catechistic,
- nonviable,
- academic,
- divinatory,
- unnegotiable,
- dangerous,
- Experient,
- not a prayer,
- non-functional,
- up for grabs,
- observational,
- nonfunctional,
- Conjecturable,
- contestable,
- out on limb,
- Doubtable,
- inoperable.
- on spot,
- out limb,
- off the deep end,
- hanging by a thread,
- out a limb,
- end-angered,
- end angered,
- wideopen.
- more provisionary,
- subject change,
- pro visionary,
- pro-visionary,
- de-pendent,
- de pendent,
- most provisionary.
n.
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- around,
- about,
- conservative.
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- thinking.
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- abstract.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- unlikely,
- yield,
- spurious,
- transparent,
- bring in,
- false,
- equivocal,
- lame,
- subjective,
- illogical.
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- invalid.
- 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:
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Independent
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Adjective
conjectural, counterfactual, hypothesis, notional, opportunistic, putative, theoretical, virtual.
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Other Related
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Adjective
hedge, hypothetical, speculation.
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Adjective
Word of the Day
wrong-way
- Synonyms:
- reversed, counter, reflex, reversed.