speculation
nounHow many syllables in speculation?
There are 4 syllables in the word speculation.How to pronounce speculation:
Definition of speculation:
- speculation (noun):
- a guess
- an act or instance of speculating such as
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence).
Synonyms for speculation:
adventure
bet
chance
conjecture
consideration
contemplation
crapshoot
deliberation
enterprise
flutter
flyer
gamble
guess
guesswork
hypothesis
meditation
opinion
possibility
supposition
surmisal
surmise
theory
throw
venture
Antonyms for speculation:
abortion
being
calculation
carelessness
cause
certainty
certitude
concrete
confusion
death
denial
disbelief
disdain
disregard
disrespect
evidence
fact
guess
hard facts
heedlessness
hindsight
humility
ignorance
imprudence
impulsiveness
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