Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to speculate
Participle: speculated
Gerund: speculating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | speculate |
| you | speculate |
| he;she;it | speculates |
| we | speculate |
| you | speculate |
| they | speculate |
Perfect
| I | have speculated |
| you | have speculated |
| he;she;it | has speculated |
| we | have speculated |
| you | have speculated |
| they | have speculated |
Past
| I | speculated |
| you | speculated |
| he;she;it | speculated |
| we | speculated |
| you | speculated |
| they | speculated |
Pluperfect
| I | had speculated |
| you | had speculated |
| he;she;it | had speculated |
| we | had speculated |
| you | had speculated |
| they | had speculated |
Future
| I | will speculate |
| you | will speculate |
| he;she;it | will speculate |
| we | will speculate |
| you | will speculate |
| they | will speculate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have speculated |
| you | will have speculated |
| he;she;it | will have speculated |
| we | will have speculated |
| you | will have speculated |
| they | will have speculated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | speculate |
| you | speculate |
| he;she;it | speculate |
| we | speculate |
| you | speculate |
| they | speculate |
Perfect
| I | have speculated |
| you | have speculated |
| he;she;it | have speculated |
| we | have speculated |
| you | have speculated |
| they | have speculated |
Imperfect
| I | speculated |
| you | speculated |
| he;she;it | speculated |
| we | speculated |
| you | speculated |
| they | speculated |
Pluperfect
| I | had speculated |
| you | had speculated |
| he;she;it | had speculated |
| we | had speculated |
| you | had speculated |
| they | had speculated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would speculate |
| you | would speculate |
| he;she;it | would speculate |
| we | would speculate |
| you | would speculate |
| they | would speculate |
Perfect
| I | would have speculated |
| you | would have speculated |
| he;she;it | would have speculated |
| we | would have speculated |
| you | would have speculated |
| they | would have speculated |
Imperative
| you | speculate |
| we | Let's speculate |
| you | speculate |
Verbs conjugated like 'speculate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'speculate'
peculate,
spiculate,
spatulate,
speciate,
spectate,
sporulate,
calculate,
circulate,
ejaculate,
emaculate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to deem something true without verification or proof
- arread, assume, conject, conjecture, daresay, dope, go out on a limb, guess, guesstimate, hypothesize, imagine, infer, overhope, posit, postulate, presume, reckon, suppose, suspect, take a stab at, take something as read, ween
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin speculātus, perfect active participle of speculor (“to watch, observe, examine, spy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from specula (“a watchtower”), ultimately from speciō (“to look at”).
Verbs referencing "speculate"
Finnish with old forms
spekuloida, Ido spekular.
Sample Sentences
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[...] near, this volubility dwindled away by little and little, despite the most persevering efforts to the contrary, until at last, the matter being now quite desperate, we threw off all disguise; openly speculated upon where we should be this time to-morrow, this time next day, and so forth; and entrusted a vast number of messages to those who intended returning to town that night, which were to be delivered [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] enterprise. “ Look here, now, Loker, a beautiful opening. We'll do a business here on our own account; — we does the catchin ’; the boy, of course, goes to Mr. Haley,—we takes the gal to Orleans to speculate on. An't it beautiful ? ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] so flat and low and marshy, that at certain seasons of the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breeding-place of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated in, on the faith of monstrous representations, to many people 's ruin. A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away: cleared here and there for the space of a few yards; and teeming, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] I was given to understand that this was a very smart scheme by which a deal of money had been made: and that its smartest feature was, that they forgot these things abroad, in a very short time, and speculated again, as freely as ever. The following dialogue I have held a hundred times: ‘Is it not a very disgraceful circumstance that such a man as So-and-so should be acquiring a large property by the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and change of place; and people who saw him in the street, or met him at the cafe, knew of his loss only by the weed on his hat; for there he was, smiling and talking, and reading the newspaper, and speculating on politics, and attending to business matters; and who could see that all this smiling outside was but a hollowed shell over a heart that was a dark and silent sepulchre ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)