When you speculate, you use what you know to make a prediction about an outcome, like when you speculate that the injury of two key players will prevent your favorite team from going far in the playoffs this year.
To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize;
Verb
reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
Verb
to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
Verb
talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"
Verb
invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
v. i.
To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and
viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to
contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to
speculate on political events.
v. i.
To view subjects from certain premises given or
assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
v. i.
To purchase with the expectation of a contingent
advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a
somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as,
to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.
v. t.
To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature
of a thing.
Speculate
It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude to the external regulations of society.2.
Speculate
To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize;
To consider attentively;
Usage Examples
It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
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Other Usage ExamplesGod created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.
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