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Definition: Speculatively |
SpeculativelyAdverb1. In a speculative manner; "he looked at her speculatively". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "speculatively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
Synonym: SpeculativelySynonym: with speculation (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Speculatively |
| English words defined with "speculatively": wildcat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "speculatively": eager evaluation ♦ nanobot. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | For a moment he continued to look wisely, speculatively at Tom, and then he turned on his heels and popped into the shack after the gray woman. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Mikhail Baryshnikov | Next question. It bothered, of course. And some of the mostly totally speculatively things they're not truth and they're known. But I guess I was accepting this as a part of the cultural need for that kind of thing, you know. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Speculatively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Speculatively" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 76 | 38,217 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "speculatively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 投机地. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | spekulativ (notional, speculative, speculatory, theoretical), theoretisch (abstract, academic, hypothetical, hypothetically, theoretic, theoretical, theoretically, theoreticly), grüblerisch (brooding, broody, pensive, speculative, thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 위험하게 (Dangerously, hazardously, Perilously). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eculativelyspay умозрительно (ideally). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Speculatively" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: speculatiely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-l-p-s-t-u-v-y" | |
-2 letters: speculative. | |
-3 letters: especially, televisual, vesiculate. | |
-4 letters: callipees, celestial, elusively, eluviates, eucalypti, eucalypts, palletise, peculates, pulsatile, specially, specialty, speculate, sylleptic, teleplays, vesiculae. | |
-5 letters: actively, allspice, allusive, calipees, callipee, capelets, captives, clayiest, clypeate, cypselae, elatives, eluviate, epaulets, epically, epistyle, especial, eucalypt, evillest, lealties, leaviest, leucites, palliest, pastille, peculate, plausive, playlets, playlist, playsuit, pluvials, scutella, selectly, septical. | |
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