Usually means: Form theories without firm evidence.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word speculate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. speculate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. speculate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. speculate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. speculate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. speculate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Speculate, speculate: Wordnik
  7. speculate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. speculate: Wiktionary
  9. speculate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. speculate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. speculate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. speculate: Dictionary.com
  13. speculate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Speculate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Speculate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. speculate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. speculate: Rhymezone
  18. speculate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. speculate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. speculate: Free Dictionary
  21. speculate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. speculate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. speculate: Legal dictionary
  4. speculate: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speculate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speculate: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
verb:  (intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
verb:  (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
verb:  (intransitive, programming) To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.

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