speculate

speculate is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. 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.
2. intransitive verb. To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
3. intransitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
5. 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"

   Synonyms: contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate

6. verb. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

   "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"

   Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize

7. 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"

8. 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"

   Synonyms: job

Synonyms

contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize, job

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in speculate:

peculates

Common word forms

speculated, speculates, speculating

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