[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

speculative \spec"ulative\ spe^k"-ul.ati^v, a.
   cf. f. sp'eculatif, l. speculativus.
   1. given to speculation; contemplative.
      1913 webster

            the mind of man being by nature speculative.
                                                  --hooker.
      1913 webster

   2. involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical;
      not established by demonstration. --cudworth.
      1913 webster

   3. of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive;
      curious. r. --bacon.
      1913 webster

   4. of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares,
      etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
      1913 webster

            the speculative merchant exercises no one regular,
            established, or well-known branch of business. --a.
                                                  smith.
      1913 webster

   5. finance more risky than typical investments; not
      investment grade.
      pjc -- spec"ulatively, adv. --
      spec"ulativeness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
spec"ulatively spec"ulativeness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

speculative
     adj 1: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
            risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too
            much can't help being risky"; "speculative business
            enterprises" syn: bad, insecure, risky, high-risk
     2: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of
        cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative
        knowledge" syn: notional
     3: showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light
        post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative
        eyebrow" syn: inquisitive, questioning, wonderinga
see also:
bad insecure risky high-risk notional inquisitive 
questioning wonderinga 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

105 moby thesaurus words for "speculative":
   abstract, academic, adventurous, aleatory, analytical, arguable,
   armchair, at issue, chancy, closet, cogitative, cognitive,
   concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual,
   conceptualized, confutable, conjectural, contemplating,
   contemplative, contestable, controversial, controvertible, curious,
   debatable, deliberating, deliberative, deniable, dicey, disputable,
   doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, excogitating,
   full of risk, hazardous, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal,
   idealistic, idealized, ideational, ideative, iffy, impractical,
   in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inquiring,
   intellectual, introspective, meditating, meditative, mental,
   mistakable, moot, museful, musing, noetic, notional, open to doubt,
   open to question, pensive, pondering, postulatory, prehensive,
   problematic, questionable, questioning, ratiocinative, rational,
   reflecting, reflective, refutable, riskful, risky, ruminant,
   ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, suppositional,
   supposititious, suppositive, suspect, suspicious, theoretical,
   thinking, thought, thoughtful, uncertain, unpractical, unproved,
   unproven, unrealistic, unreliable, untested, untrustworthy,
   venturesome, venturous, wildcat, wistful

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