Synonyms:
speculator, plunger
Meaning: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
Synonyms:
speculator
Meaning: someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
Usage examples
The sanctimonious hypocrite, the sleek speculator, and others whom he has probably encountered in life are done "to the queen's taste."
It is hinted that Oloffe the Dreamer encouraged these notions; having, as has been shown, the inherent spirit of a land speculator, which had been wonderfully quickened and expanded since he had become a landholder.
Well, he speedily became a thorough Copernican, and as he had a most singularly restless and inquisitive mind, full of appreciation of everything relating to number and magnitude--was a born speculator and thinker just as Mozart was a born musician, or Bidder a born calculator--he was agitated by questions such as these: Why are there exactly six planets?