Synonyms:
guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
Meaning: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Synonyms:
speculation, conjecture
Meaning: a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture"
Synonyms:
speculation, venture
Meaning: an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits; "he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it"
Usage examples
"That is a subject for speculation.
Armed with this new datum, his old speculation concerning gravity occurred to him.
Malthus was a well-known capitalist, who had made his money by speculation in railway shares.
It was by his advice that my father risked most of his property in the speculation that ruined him.
It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.
As a rule, the immediate outcome shows which opinion on a given subject is the right one; it is a matter of fact, not of speculation.
Then she asks him, why, in the disappointment of his base speculation, he does not take her life with his own hand, under the present favourable circumstances.
'I'm very sorry they can't get them,' replied Mrs. Bardell. 'But if you law gentlemen do these things on speculation, why you must get a loss now and then, you know.'
We continued thus a whole year in perfect love and harmony. Seeing that God had increased my small stock, I projected a voyage, to embark some of it in a commercial speculation.
Upon the succession of a proprietor so young, with a character so well known, to a fortune so unparalleled, little speculation was afloat in regard to his probable course of conduct.