speculative
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
not financially safe or secure
a bad investment
Related & opposite
- risk derivation
- riskiness derivation
- speculativeness derivation
- job derivation
- unsound similar to
Sense 2 adjective
not based on fact or investigation
a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs
Related & opposite
- speculativeness derivation
- conjecture derivation
- speculate derivation
- theoretical similar to
Sense 3 adjective
showing curiosity
if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive
Related & opposite
- curiousness derivation
- muse derivation
- wonder derivation
- curious similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | risk |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | riskiness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | speculativeness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | job |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | unsound |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | speculativeness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | conjecture |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | speculate |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | theoretical |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | curiousness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | muse |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | wonder |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | curious |