Word Meanings - SPECULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori. (more info) 1. To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate;

Additional info about word: SPECULATE

To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori. (more info) 1. To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude to the external regulations of society. Hawthorne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPECULATE)

• Cogitate
• Think
• ruminate
• reflect
• meditate
• brood
• speculate
• contemplate
• ponder
• muse

Related words: (words related to SPECULATE)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• COGITATE
  To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
• PONDERAL
  Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot.
• RUMINATE; RUMINATED
  Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
• PONDEROUSLY
  In a ponderous manner.
• THINK
  confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
• PONDERATION
  The act of weighing. Arbuthnot.
• MEDITATE
  To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.
• REFLECTOR
  1. One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle. Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. A reflecting telescope. A device for reflecting sound.
• PONDERATE
  To consider; to ponder.
• PONDERING
  Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv.
• REFLECTING
  1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface. 2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring angless,
• REFLECTION
  The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface,
• REFLECTED
  1. Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc. 2. Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory. 3. Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
• PONDEROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
• REFLECTENT
  1. Bending or flying back; reflected. "The ray descendent, and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed." Sir K. Digby. 2. Reflecting; as, a reflectent body. Sir K. Digby.
• PONDERANCE
  Weight; gravity. Gregory.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• PREPONDERATINGLY
  In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
• PREPONDERATE
  prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater
• ABROOD
  In the act of brooding. Abp. Sancroft.
• METHINKS
  It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.
• COUNTERPONDERATE
  TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.