Synonym: bad, high-risk, inquisitive, notional, questioning, risky, wondering. Similar words: speculation, speculate, speculator, peculate, cumulative, manipulative, accumulative, intensive cultivation. Meaning: ['spekjəleɪtɪv /-kjʊlə-] 
adj. 1. not financially safe or secure 2. not based on fact or investigation 3. showing curiosity.
adj. 1. not financially safe or secure 2. not based on fact or investigation 3. showing curiosity. 
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1. He had a speculative gleam in his eyes.
2. The papers ran speculative stories about the mysterious disappearance of Eddie Donagan.
3. The office block was built as a speculative venture.
4. His mother regarded him with a speculative eye.
5. The article was dismissed as highly speculative.
6. The report is highly speculative and should be ignored.
7. She cast a speculative look at Kate.
8. All three approaches were highly speculative.
9. Again, this line of reasoning is purely speculative.
10. For example, the impact of electricity privatisation is speculative.
11. Theories of the origin of life are partly speculative.
12. There is a more speculative, perhaps deeper point.
13. The speculative demand can be quite large.
14. However, at present these suggestions remain purely speculative.
15. The speculative demand becomes virtually infinite at this minimum rate of interest.
16. He was very conscious of the speculative status of his death instincts theory in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
17. The dispute involves speculative claims far beyond the available data.
18. Such speculative gains were seen as more often lying in the property market than in industrial capitalization.
19. Asking hypothetical or speculative questions is one way of investigating perceptions and feelings about certain issues.
20. Descriptions of how this ancient tribe lived are speculative at best.
21. A boom period of speculative house building peaked between 1928 and 1936 when construction of 118,000 dwellings annually increased to 293,000.
22. The boss has put all his money into that speculative enterprise.
23. Thousands of pensioners were persuaded to mortgage their homes to invest in speculative bonds.
24. Everyone is hoping that these hi-tech companies will turn out to be the Microsofts of the future. At the moment they look more like the focus of a speculative bubble.
25. There, a sharp rise in interest rates popped the market's speculative bubble.
26. The housing lenders ran up much of their debt through speculative lending in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
27. This is because of the much smaller role played by speculative balances.
28. These fluctuations in interest rates will cause further uncertainty and further shifts in the speculative demand for money.
29. Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks.
30. Until I saw this move I suspected that Kasparov's attack might be somewhat speculative.
More similar words: speculation, speculate, speculator, peculate, cumulative, manipulative, accumulative, intensive cultivation, spectacular, perspective, respective, prospective, irrespective, in perspective, respectively, secularization, introspective, retrospective, irrespective of, circulation, calculating, inoculation, calculation, reticulation, articulation, gesticulation, gesticulating, matriculation, miscalculation, ablative.