speculative
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
— Like The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper.
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Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
— Tranquillo Barnetta was the grateful beneficiary of uncertain England defending and poor goalkeeping from Joe Hart as he twice saw speculative free-kicks end in the back of the net in the first half.
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Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
— "Don't dare laugh at us!" smiled his sister. "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. Do you like the house?"
词汇关系
衍生词
antispeculative
hyperspeculative
nonspeculative
overspeculative
speculative application
speculative damages
speculative erotica
speculative evolution
speculative fiction
speculative grammar
speculative grammarian
speculatively
Speculative Masonry
speculative materialism
speculativeness
speculative philosophy
speculative realism
speculativism
unspeculative
词源
Inherited from Middle English speculatyf, borrowed from Old French speculatif or directly from Late Latin speculativus, from Latin speculor.
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