Speculating Synonyms and Antonyms

Gamble, risk
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. venturing
  2. hazarding
  3. gambling
  4. risking
Antonyms:
  1. abstaining
To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. theorizing
  2. supposing
  3. hypothecating
  4. hypothesizing
  5. conjecturing
To draw an inference on the basis of inconclusive evidence or insufficient information
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. surmising
  2. supposing
  3. inferring
  4. guessing
  5. conjecturing

Speculating Sentence Examples

  • Fred asked the question like a learned professor, speculating on a universal problem of time, space and the creation of the universe.

  • I'll write it in general terms, speculating on how difficult it is to maintain both lives, operating one incognito.

  • Dean spent much of the trip speculating on the reason for the law man's visit.

  • I moved to the want ads, speculating on what I'd be doing with my time in the future but nothing caught my eye.

  • You are extremely creative in more than one area and enjoy speculating.

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