different between supposed vs speculative
supposed
English
Pronunciation
- (verb)
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??p??zd/
- (US) IPA(key): /s??po?zd/
- (adjective)
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??p??z?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /s??po?z?d/, /s??po?zd/
- (in supposed to)
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??p??st/, (colloquial) /sp??st/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /s??po?st/, (colloquial) /spo?st/
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??p??st/, (colloquial) /sp??st/
Verb
supposed
- simple past tense and past participle of suppose
Adjective
supposed (not comparable)
- Presumed to be true, but without proof
- Muhammad is the supposed messenger of God.
- (with infinitive) Generally considered or expected.
- The movie is supposed to be good.
- (with infinitive) Having an obligation.
- You are not supposed to smoke in the restaurant. [Note: this means, you are obliged not to smoke.]
- The phone is supposed to come with a manual.
- (with infinitive) Intended.
- The phone is supposed to save us time.
Derived terms
- supposedly
- supposed to
Translations
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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
speculative From the web:
- what speculative mean
- what's speculative fiction
- what's speculative trading
- what speculative philosophy
- what's speculative risk
- what speculative stocks to invest in
- what's speculative business
- what's speculative application
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