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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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unsound
English
Etymology
un- +? sound.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?n-sound?, IPA(key): /??n?sa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Adjective
unsound (comparative more unsound or unsounder, superlative most unsound or unsoundest)
- Not sound, particularly:
- Not whole, not solid, defective.
- (especially of equestrianism) Infirm, diseased.
- (Britain, especially of people) Not good, unreliable.
- 1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
- You would not like Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
- 1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
- Not whole, not solid, defective.
Antonyms
- sound
Derived terms
- unsoundly
- unsoundness
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