SPECULATIVE Synonyms

• based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

• a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.

• based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

• based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

• based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

• concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations

• concerned with theories rather than their practical applications

• having undesirable or negative qualities

• feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

• that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency

• with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')

• very much; strongly

• serious or severe

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

• not capable of being collected

• below average in quality or performance

• nonstandard

• not financially safe or secure

• physically unsound or diseased

• capable of harming

• characterized by wickedness or immorality

• reproduced fraudulently

• not working properly

• not financially safe or secure

• showing curiosity

• inquiring or appearing to inquire

• not based on fact; existing only in the imagination

• not based on fact or investigation

• indulging in or influenced by fancy

• being of the nature of a notion or concept

• a request for information

• perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

• marked by or given to doubt

• showing curiosity

• involving risk or danger

• not financially safe or secure

• showing curiosity