speculate
About 2.86 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
- verb To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
- verb To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
- verb To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.
Similar words
contemplate think over chew over mull over mull ponder meditate hypothesize conjecture suppose
Often followed by
that on about as upon in whether what how
Word family
speculated speculates speculating
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