speculative
See also: spéculative
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English, borrowed from Old French speculatif or directly from Late Latin speculativus, from Latin speculor.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]speculative (comparative more speculative, superlative most speculative)
- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
- 2013, P. L. Thomas, Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction: Challenging Genres, →ISBN, page 2:
- Like The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper.
- 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, , page 487:
- When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information.
- Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
- 2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2-2 Switzerland”, in BBC:
- Tranquillo Barnetta was the grateful beneficiary of uncertain England defending and poor goalkeeping from Joe Hart as he twice saw speculative free-kicks end in the back of the net in the first half.
- 2015 April 18, Paul Wilson, The Guardian[1]:
- Little seemed on when Sánchez cut in from the left and sent a speculative low shot through a crowd of players, but though Federici had it covered he could not hold on to the ball and it squirmed over the line through his legs.
- Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- "Don't dare laugh at us!" smiled his sister. "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. Do you like the house?"
- 2001, Zhiwei Zhang, Speculative Attacks in the Asian Crisis, →ISBN, page 4:
- In other words, it is critical to know whether a currency is under high speculative pressure for every month in the sample.
- 2010, Sebastian Schneider, Investments of Speculative Capital in Staple Foods, →ISBN, page 13:
- It was written between 1929 and 1930 and deals with a famine caused by speculative investments of the Meat King of Chicago, Pierpont Mauler.
- 2014, Bradley Jones, Identifying Speculative Bubbles, →ISBN, page 9:
- Empirical tests of speculative bubbles, including those assessing early warning indicators in the context of financial crises, are forced to contend with other difficult measurement and inference issues.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]characterized by speculation; based on guessing or unfounded opinions
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pertaining to financial speculation
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See also
[edit]Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]speculative f pl
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]speculātīve
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