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

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

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"

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

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"

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"

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"

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

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

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

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

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"

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"

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

adj. exceedingly harmful

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

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

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

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"

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

adj. (unplayful)

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

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

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

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

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"

adj. showing excessive curiosity

adj. dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"

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

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"

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

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

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"

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

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"