- speculation
- n1. thinking, thought, reflection, meditation, contemplation; musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over, dwelling on; cogitating, cogitation, excogitating, excogitation; rumination, ruminating, chewing over, chewing one's cud; putting on one's thinking cap, cerebrating, cerebration, lucubration, brainwork, headwork; wondering, considering, weighing, evaluating, studying, examination.2. inference, deduction, judgment, conclusion; conviction, persuasion, position; conjecture, surmise, guess, Sl. shot in the dark; impression, Inf. hunch, assumption, supposition, presupposition, premise, presumption; hypothesis, thesis, postulate, postula-tion; theory, guesswork, augury, forecast, prediction; suspicion, inkling, feeling, intuition, divination.3. venture, trading, exchanging, buying and selling; gambling, sporting, Inf. playing the market.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.