Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
Given to speculation; contemplative.
Adjective S.
showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"
Adjective S.
not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"
Adjective S.
not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can''t help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
a.
Given to speculation; contemplative.
a.
Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal;
theoretical; not established by demonstration.
a.
Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive;
curious.
a.
Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods,
shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
Speculative
The mind of man being by nature speculative.2.
The speculative merchant exercises no one regular, established, or well-known branch of business.--
Given to speculation; contemplative.
Usage Examples
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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Other Usage ExamplesTrue science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.