- Conjecture
- Form a theory
- Risk a guess
- theorise
- 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.
- To view subjects from certain premises given or
assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
- To purchase with the expectation of a contingent
advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a
somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as,
to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.
- theorise
- An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or
presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
- To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight
evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions
concerning.
- To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer;
to form an opinion; to imagine.
- Speculate
- Speculate on hearsay that Phil ossifies
- Theorise