1. speculative - Adjective
2. speculative - Adjective Satellite
Given to speculation; contemplative.
Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration.
Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious.
Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Douglas Adams
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? Immanuel Kant
It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling. Benjamin Graham
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. David Harvey
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. John Herschel
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues. Lawrence Klein