speculation

speculation is a 11-letter English word with 13 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of speculating. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of speculating.
2. noun. Examination by the eye; view.
3. noun. Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
4. noun. The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
5. noun. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
6. noun. Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.
7. noun. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.
8. noun. Power of sight.
9. noun. A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
10. noun. continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature

    "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge"

    Synonyms: meditation

11. noun. a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)

    "speculations about the outcome of the election"

    "he dismissed it as mere conjecture"

    Synonyms: conjecture

12. noun. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

    Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, supposition, surmisal, surmise

13. noun. an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

    "he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it"

    Synonyms: venture

Synonyms

meditation, conjecture, guess, hypothesis, supposition, surmisal, surmise, venture

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in speculation:

peculations

Common word forms

speculations

Words from these letters

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