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adj. not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"

bad, risky, high-risk, speculative

adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

inquisitive, speculative, questioning, wondering(a)

adj. showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"

conjectural

adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"

fanciful, imaginary, notional

adj. not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

experimental, data-based, observational

adj. relying on observation or experiment; "experimental results that supported the hypothesis"

experimental

adj. of the nature of or undergoing an experiment; "an experimental drug"

unwholesome

adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"

deleterious, hurtful, injurious

adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"

prejudicial, prejudicious

adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"

bad

adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"

bad

adj. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"

baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent

adj. exceedingly harmful

insidious, pernicious, subtle

adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

defective, faulty

adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"

dystopian

adj. as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag

fatal, fateful

adj. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"

deadly, deathly, mortal

adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"

somber, sombre, serious

adj. (unplayful)

harmful

adj. causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

corrupt, corrupted

adj. containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"

immoral

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

evil

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

inquisitive

adj. inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive"

interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied

adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"

academic

adj. hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"

abstractive

adj. of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"

conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious

adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"

metaphysical

adj. highly abstract and overly theoretical; "metaphysical reasoning"

theory-based

adj. based in theory rather than experiment; "theory-based arguments and positions"

bad, unfit, unsound

adj. physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"

decayed, rotten, rotted

adj. damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"

wildcat

adj. outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices; "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes"

nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy

adj. offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"

overcurious

adj. showing excessive curiosity

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