SPECULATE vs HYPOTHESIZE: VERB
- Reflect deeply on a subject
- Talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion
- Invest at a risk
- To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to deliberate or cogitate
- To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture
- To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble
- To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- To hypothesise
SPECULATE vs HYPOTHESIZE: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize
- To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
- To assume to be true without conclusive evidence.
- To engage in the buying or selling of a commodity with an element of risk on the chance of profit.
- To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or theorize.
- 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.
- To assert as a hypothesis.
- To form a hypothesis.
SPECULATE vs HYPOTHESIZE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To consider attentively.
- N/A
SPECULATE vs HYPOTHESIZE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To view as from a watch-tower or observatory; observe.
- To take a discriminating view of; consider attentively; speculate upon; examine; inspect: as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
- To pursue truth by thinking, as by mathematical reasoning, by logical analysis, or by the review of data already collected.
- To take a discursive view of a subject or subjects; note diverse aspects, relations, or probabilities; meditate; conjecture: often implying absence of definite method or result.
- To invest money for profit upon an uncertainty; take the risk of loss in view of possible gain; make a purchase or purchases, as of something liable to sudden fluctuations in price or to rapid deterioration, on the chance of selling at a large advance: as, to speculate in stocks.
- To assume as a hypothesis.
- To form hypotheses. Also hypothesise, hypothetize.
SPECULATE vs HYPOTHESIZE: RELATED WORDS
- Mull over, Hypothecate, Job, Meditate, Muse, Reflect, Suppose, Ruminate, Mull, Contemplate, Ponder, Theorise, Conjecture, Hypothesize, Theorize
- Pose, Assume, Guess, Presume, Believe, Suggest, Hypothesis, Posit, Postulate, Hypothecate, Conjecture, Suppose, Theorise, Speculate, Theorize
SPECULATE vs HYPOTHESIZE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Guess, Believe, Think over, Chew over, Job, Meditate, Muse, Reflect, Suppose, Ruminate, Mull, Contemplate, Ponder, Theorise, Conjecture
- Elucidate, Deduce, Infer, Pose, Guess, Presume, Believe, Suggest, Hypothesis, Posit, Postulate, Conjecture, Suppose, Theorise, Speculate
SPECULATE vs HYPOTHESIZE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Speculate on what makes hydrazine a good propellant.
- All we can do is speculate, and hope.
- KLEBOLD: And I can only speculate about this.
- We are not in a position to speculate.
- Some speculate that it may have been epilepsy.
- One can only speculate why Charles married Sarah.
- People may speculate about the value of cryptocurrencies.
- It is not an unethical thing to speculate.
- He declined to speculate on possible military intervention.
- The Company does not speculate using financial instruments.
- One might hypothesize that states with smallercourtssentences are carried out.
- Here is where I hypothesize most people make their mistakes.
- Let us hypothesize that Hydroxychloroquine does nothing to help.
- Have the students hypothesize about what image might be.
- We hypothesize that these anchors will aid visual search.
- Predict what is going to be presented next; hypothesize.
- After letting the celery sit, hypothesize what will happen.
- Researchers hypothesize this syndrome has a genetic basis.
- Let us hypothesize several answers and examine them.
- They can support opinions and hypothesize in Spanish.
SPECULATE vs HYPOTHESIZE: QUESTIONS
- What do the waiters speculate about the deaf old man?
- What do the young ladies at Gatsby's lawn party speculate about?
- What is the most remarkable about people who speculate?
- What do scientists hypothesize about early Earth and the origin of life?
- What did scientists hypothesize about heredity before Mendel's investigations?
- Why does the researcher often hypothesize in a study?