Wondering how to use Speculative in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as bad or wondering.
Speculative meaning
- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
- Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
- Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
Synonyms of Speculative
Using Speculative
- The main meaning on this page is: Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation. | Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky. | Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
- Useful related words include: bad, wondering, questioning, inquisitive.
- In the example corpus, speculative often appears in combinations such as: and speculative, speculative and, the speculative.
Context around Speculative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Speculative
- In this selection, "speculative" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, larger, damages, implications, damages, investments and trading stand out and add context to how "speculative" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and highly speculative in order and as a speculative buy considering. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "speculative" sits close to words such as astronomers, booths and chanting, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with speculative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ain’t gonna happen anytime soon – but doesn’t that mean speculative turmoil. (13 words)
Speculative implications Speculative physics deals with questions which are also discussed in science fiction. (14 words)
A second key difference between traditional and speculative investments is the time horizon involved. (14 words)
Cohen did buy a New York team in the newly formed TGL — a golf league backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy that Cohen called “speculative” — but he said more significant purchases won’t come until the current mission is accomplished. (41 words)
Authorities are watching the currency market closely and stand ready to respond, Suzuki said, repeating a warning against speculative moves as the yen hovered near a one-year low versus the dollar, just shy of the 150 mark. (38 words)
Blake quipped that she has heard so many plans for the future use of the area, following the departure of Newmont, that she can’t really comment on speculative post-mining ventures. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
This inherently attracts talent and capital to the speculative trading pits, leading to even higher asset prices and ever larger speculative bubbles.
Speculative damages Speculative damages are damages that have not yet occurred, but the plaintiff expects them to.
Speculative implications Speculative physics deals with questions which are also discussed in science fiction.
Ain’t gonna happen anytime soon – but doesn’t that mean speculative turmoil.
Always a workhorse and desperate to try and make something happen, Ethan Freemantle hit a speculative effort or Harriers two minutes later as he tried to swivel and shoot.
And they even decided a case that was purely speculative, something that the Court has never done before.
A second key difference between traditional and speculative investments is the time horizon involved.
As mentioned, the excitement surrounding disruptive themes is warranted, and certain technological advancements are no longer speculative, but a reality.
As such, it's very jarring when ending leans on much more speculative science fiction, with some spectacular leaps in logic.
Authorities are watching the currency market closely and stand ready to respond, Suzuki said, repeating a warning against speculative moves as the yen hovered near a one-year low versus the dollar, just shy of the 150 mark.
Blake quipped that she has heard so many plans for the future use of the area, following the departure of Newmont, that she can’t really comment on speculative post-mining ventures.
But if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find many of this year’s speculative leaders are beginning to crack.
But stock markets coated this idea with so much speculative froth that the real business was lost in the hype.
Cohen did buy a New York team in the newly formed TGL — a golf league backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy that Cohen called “speculative” — but he said more significant purchases won’t come until the current mission is accomplished.
Efforts are continuing to eliminate the speculative price formations and stockpiling in the automotive market, Bolat also said.
Following this peak, the fluctuations began to stabilize as volatility and speculative activity in energy markets diminished.
From an income-enhancing perspective, the fund owns some bonds with speculative-grade ratings.
Here, I propose categorizing the underlying programs into three groups: highly visible, rapidly expanding, and highly speculative, in order to evaluate the business.
Historically, in times of economic crisis, money exits speculative investments and finds its way to higher quality businesses with more stable competitive positions.
However, I rate the stock as a speculative buy considering the launch of BKR 9000 has been delayed several times already.
Common combinations with speculative
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and speculative 13×
- speculative and 12×
- the speculative 11×
- of speculative 11×
- is speculative 8×
- speculative fiction 8×
- as speculative 7×
- purely speculative 6×
- speculative investments 6×
- more speculative 6×