speculative
投机性,投机性的,推测性的,推测性
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- : pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- : theoretical, rather than practical: speculative conclusions.
- : given to speculation, as persons, the mind, etc.
- : of the nature of or involving commercial or financial speculation: speculative ventures.
- : engaging in or given to such speculation.
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Examples
This is speculative, but it’s quite possible that Apple could become the number two mobile search engine.
“These are speculative for sure, with a capital S,” says William Gabella.
He openly advocates that catching the coronavirus is a good thing, because healthy people will build up antibodies, a claim that is entirely speculative at this point.
The most recent numbers are speculative and from 2016, but they suggest that at the time, at least half of Americans had photos in a face recognition system.
All to be taken for what they are—informed but utterly speculative proposals.
Dardagan and his peers are the first to admit that local media reports often are speculative in the extreme.
Architecture has a long history of this type of speculative design.
The speculative architecture of today can play that same role, and it often does.
But it might break down in regimes we have trouble testing, and some speculative theories have proposed something like that.
Luskin makes the best argument he can, of course, but it is piecemeal and speculative.
Her youthful vanity had its way in a mind too speculative, intelligent, observant, merely to be shocked.