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speculative
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French speculatif or directly from Late Latin speculativus, from Latin speculor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?kjul??t?v/
- Hyphenation: spec?u?la?tive
Adjective
speculative (comparative more speculative, superlative most speculative)
- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
- "Don't dare laugh at us!" smiled his sister. "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. Do you like the house?"
- Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
- 2015, Paul Wilson, Alexis Sánchez sends Arsenal into final after gallant Reading go the distance (in The Guardian, 18 April 2015)[1]
- Little seemed on when Sánchez cut in from the left and sent a speculative low shot through a crowd of players, but though Federici had it covered he could not hold on to the ball and it squirmed over the line through his legs.
- 2015, Paul Wilson, Alexis Sánchez sends Arsenal into final after gallant Reading go the distance (in The Guardian, 18 April 2015)[1]
- Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
Derived terms
- speculative damages
- speculative fiction
- speculatively
- speculativeness
- speculative philosophy
- speculative realism
Related terms
- speculate
- speculation
- speculativity
Translations
See also
- conjectural
Italian
Adjective
speculative
- feminine plural of speculativo
Latin
Adjective
specul?t?ve
- vocative masculine singular of specul?t?vus
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intellectual
English
Alternative forms
- intellectuall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt??l?k(t)???l/
Adjective
intellectual (comparative more intellectual, superlative most intellectual)
- Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
- 1920, Harold Monro, Preface to s:The year's at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry
- Pleasure is various, but it cannot exist where the emotions or the imagination have not been powerfully stirred. Whether it be called sensual or intellectual, pleasure cannot be willed
- 1920, Harold Monro, Preface to s:The year's at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry
- Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
- 1894, Edgar Wilson Nye, Nye's History of the USA Chapter 30
- The Fenimore Cooper Indian is no doubt a brave and highly intellectual person, educated abroad, refined and cultivated by foreign travel, graceful in the grub dance or scalp walk-around, yet tender-hearted as a girl, walking by night fifty-seven miles in a single evening to warn his white friends of danger.
- 1894, Edgar Wilson Nye, Nye's History of the USA Chapter 30
- Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
- 1916, Joseph McCabe, The Tyranny of Shams Chapter IX
- A good deal of nonsense is written about sport and entertainment. Many of us can, with pleasant ease, suspend a severely intellectual task for a few hours to witness a first-class football match.
- Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
- (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
- 1805, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
- I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […]
- 1805, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
Antonyms
- nonintellectual
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
intellectual (plural intellectuals)
- An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
- Synonym: highbrow
- Coordinate terms: egghead, nerd, geek
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 20–21:
- ‘You know I hate intellectuals.’
‘You mean you hate people who are cleverer than you are.’
‘Yes. I suppose that's why I like you so much, Tom.’
- ‘You know I hate intellectuals.’
- (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 2,[1]
- […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 2,[1]
Derived terms
- public intellectual
Translations
See also
- intelligentsia
References
- intellectual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- "intellectual" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 169.
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