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Definition of Speculative

1. Adjective. Not financially safe or secure. "Speculative business enterprises"

2. Adjective. Not based on fact or investigation. "Speculative knowledge"

3. Adjective. Showing curiosity. "Raised a speculative eyebrow"

Definition of Speculative

1. a. Given to speculation; contemplative.

Definition of Speculative

1. Adjective. Characterized by speculation; based on guessing or unfounded opinions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Speculative

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Speculative

1. 1. Given to speculation; contemplative. "The mind of man being by nature speculative." (Hooker) 2. Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration. 3. Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious. 4. Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise. "The speculative merchant exercises no one regular, established, or well-known branch of business." (A. Smith) Spec"ulatively, Spec"ulativeness. Origin: Cf. F. Speculatif, L. Speculativus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Speculative

specular glare specular image specularities specularity specularization specularizations specularly speculate speculated speculates

speculating speculation speculations speculatist speculatists speculative (current term) speculative damages speculative fiction speculative fictions speculative philosophies

speculative philosophy speculatively speculativeness speculativity speculator speculatorial speculators speculatory speculist speculists

Literary usage of Speculative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"And yet this determination is attempted by all religions and :,all speculative systems. Kant has here the great merit of having defined the philosophical ..."

2. Corporation Finance: An Exposition of the Principles and Methods Governing by William Henry Lough (1909)
"In the same way high-grade preferred stocks of successful railroads and industrial companies would be called either semi-investment or semi-speculative ..."

3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"It was more on account of their speculative character; and the continued ... When the speculative class shall have overcome its dispersive tendencies, ..."

4. An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics by Frederick Pollock (1908)
"HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS divisions of natural science do not now concern us.1 The moral sciences may be divided into speculative and practical ..."

5. Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern Life by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1894)
"CHAPTER XIV speculative THEOLOGY THE later poems of Tennyson are full of speculative theology, and of an interesting kind; that kind which not only reveals ..."

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