Speculation Synonyms and Antonyms

spĕkyə-lāshən
Speculative business
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conjecture
  2. supposition
  3. surmise
  4. guess
  5. risk
  6. guesswork
  7. hypothesis
  8. trading in futures
  9. speculative enterprise
  10. contemplation
  11. financial risk
  12. gamble
  13. hunch
  14. a flier in stocks
  15. meditation
  16. reasoning
  17. risky deal
  18. review
  19. theory
  20. thought
  21. surmisal
Antonyms:
  1. risk
  2. fact
  3. safe investment
  4. truth
  5. legitimate business
  6. reality
  7. information
Abstract reasoning
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conjecture
  2. theory
A venture depending on chance
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bet
  2. gamble
  3. risk
  4. wager

Words Related to Speculation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Speculation Sentence Examples

  • This sort of speculation is going to intensify.

  • Speculation and suspicion had done enough harm already.

  • Further speculation ended as they both drifted back to sleep.

  • This has been due to speculation, to the unrestricted pasturage of goats, to the rights which many communes have over the forests, and to some extent to excessive taxation, which led the proprietors to cut and sell the trees and then abandon the ground to the Treasury.

  • One could hardly expect that a colourless deity of this description, so completely the product of priestly speculation, could ever have found a place in the hearts of the people generally.

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