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.
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31. Federally insured thrifts that traditionally had limited their investments to home mortgages began bingeing on highly speculative investments.
32. As the interest rate rises, the speculative demand for money falls and money market equilibrium is eventually restored.
33. Or he may simply be taking a highly speculative position.
34. This, however, is highly speculative and largely dependent on a perpetual bull market.
35. Thus in order to serve the needs of the Abbasid palace, the sharita was stripped of its questioning, speculative dimension.
36. This speculative demand can be quite high when the price of securities is considered certain to fall.
37. Foundation remains show the ground plan but reconstruction of the superstructure has to be more speculative.
38. Mr Mieno is still talking and acting tough because he is intent on bursting the speculative bubbles in shares and property.
39. Others withdrew billions more, driving down the peso in a speculative panic.
40. People will be more inclined to hold speculative balances of money in anticipation of a rise in interest rates.
41. Theories that fail to stand up to observational and experimental tests must be eliminated and replaced by further speculative conjectures.
42. Here are the real facts: Crane Holdings was in fact a highly speculative investment which in the event performed very badly.
43. At present, further discussion of this question is largely speculative.
44. Quantifying the compensatory award Unfortunately, but perhaps inevitably, the calculation of the compensatory award is highly speculative.
45. Until further research has been done, any figures that I can give you are highly speculative.
46. The landed gentry abandoned the parish, selling off their land to speculative developers.
47. Growth stocks and speculative stocks tend to reinvest their profits rather than pay them out to shareholders.
48. In principle, this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate.
49. Because science aims at theories with a large informative content, the falsificationist welcomes the proposal of bold speculative conjectures.
50. The savings figure, then, is highly speculative, but it is certainly good publicity for the department.
51. Also, such a system would be less vulnerable to speculative attack.
52. Buy speculative stuff and you can make a killing or get killed, depending which way the wind blows.
53. The papers were full of talk of Lucan's whereabouts, all of it entirely speculative.
54. The programme of explaining characteristics of dominant life-forms in terms simply of survival value is controversial and highly speculative.
55. An additional consideration is that the adjustment process prior to floating was influenced by the one-way nature of speculative flows.
56. He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Douglas Adams
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57. As the rate of interest falls, so the speculative demand for money increases.
58. There does, however, appear to be very little evidence to directly support such theories which thus remain largely speculative.
59. All these examples are speculative, but all have surfaced in the recent debate on higher education.
60. Although it was conceived as a speculative building project, it was not a bodge.
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.