English to English
verb
- to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps.
source: WordNet 3.0
- talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion
We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal.
source: WordNet 3.0
- reflect deeply on a subject
I mulled over the events of the afternoon.
Philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years.
The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate.
source: WordNet 3.0
- invest at a risk
I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
- To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
verb
- [spékiulet] Mangalakal; magwarì; gumunitâ
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
