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Adjectives (10)
questioning, inquisitive, wondering
adj. showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"
notional, hypothetical, hypothetic
adj. not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"
bad, risky, insecure, high-risk
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"
Fuzzynyms (56)
inquisitive
adj. inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive"
meddling, busy, interfering, meddlesome, officious, 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"
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"
notional, imaginary, imagined
adj. not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"
experimental, data-based, observational
adj. relying on observation or experiment; "experimental results that supported the hypothesis"
test, trial, model, pilot, 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"
injurious, bruising, deleterious, hurtful, noxious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious, detrimental to
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
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 habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
deadly, pestilent, baneful, pernicious
adj. exceedingly harmful
subtle, insidious, pernicious
adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
faulty, defective
adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
bad, 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. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
mortal, deadly, deathly
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
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, wicked
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
Synonyms (21)
prying, inquisitorial, nosy, nosey, 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
abstract, academic
adj. dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"
abstractive
adj. of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"
assumed, 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
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"
decomposed, rotten, decayed
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"
Antonyms (0)
speculative
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