Crossword-Solution: SPECULATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Speculate | v. i. | To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. |
| Speculate | v. i. | To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori. |
| Speculate | v. i. | To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock. |
| Speculate | v. t. | To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPECULATE | anagram | PECULATES |
We have 20 clues for the answer “SPECULATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Make conjectures | 1 answer |
| Invest riskily | 1 answer |
| Form a conjecture | 1 answer |
| Theorize | 4 answers |
| play the market | 5 answers |
| make book | 6 answers |
| theorise | 8 answers |
| BUILD CASTLES IN THE AIR | 14 answers |
| Meditate | 21 answers |
| apply logic | 32 answers |
| posit | 33 answers |
| Gambling place | 40 answers |
| Venture | 41 answers |
| Conjecture | 42 answers |
| __ guess | 55 answers |
| Ponder | 56 answers |
| presume | 65 answers |
| Assume | 70 answers |
| Gamble | 78 answers |
| Bull | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPECULATE (5)
She belonged to him: the certainties of that position were so well defined, and the reasonable probabilities of its issue so bounded, that she could not speculate on contingencies.
After working an hour I began to speculate on the distance one had to go before the cloaca was reached, the chances we had of missing it altogether.
Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly na"ive and tremendously stimulating.
Here is one which—well, now, how often we do slam right into the truth without ever suspecting it: The men employed by the Gas Company go around and speculate the meter.
Wunst I had foteen dollars, but I tuck to specalat’n’, en got busted out.” “What did you speculate in, Jim?” “Well, fust I tackled stock.” “What kind of stock?” “Why, live stock—cattle, you know.
Quotes with SPECULATE (3)
We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet — that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, …
A hundred years or more, she's bent her crownin storm, in sun, in moonsplashed midnight breeze. surviving all the random vagariesof this harsh world. A dense - twigged veil drifts downfrom crown along her trunk - mourning slow woodthat rustles tattered, in a hint of windthis January dusk, cloudy, purplingthe ground with sudden shadows. How she broods -you speculate - on dark surprise and loss, alone these many years, despondent, bent, her bolt-cracked mate transformed to spli…
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2003–2008).