speculate

/ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪt/

意味: 推測する

例文: June speculated about the noise.
    ジューンはその音について推測した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: speculate about (について推測する), speculate on (について考える), speculate that (と推測する)

定義: 何かについて考えたり、推測したりすることです。特に、証拠が不十分な場合に、何が起こるか、または何が真実であるかを予測することを指します。

speculateは約300,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度(具体・概念)、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

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Definitions(定義)

Verb: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Verb: 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
Verb: reflect deeply on a subject
Verb: invest at a risk

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文:

I often speculate about future technology trends.(私は未来の技術動向についてよく推測します。)
They speculate on the stock market daily.(彼らは毎日株式市場で投機しています。)
Scientists speculate about life on other planets.(科学者たちは他の惑星の生命について推測しています。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文:

Verb: Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
Verb: We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal
Verb: I mulled over the events of the afternoon
Verb: philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
Verb: The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
Verb: 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

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): chew over, conjecture, contemplate, excogitate, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, job, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize, think over

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): expect, invest, reason, think

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): associate, assume, believe, brainstorm, buy into, calculate, categorize, chew over, concentrate, evaluate, fund, give, philosophize, plan, puzzle over, ratiocinate, rationalize, rationalize away, reason, roll over, shelter, speculate, study, theorize, think, think about, tie up

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bethink, bull, cogitate, explicate, guess, introspect, premeditate, puzzle, reconstruct, study, suppose, theologize, wonder

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: conjecture, contemplation, contemplative, excogitative, hypothesis, meditation, meditative, muller, muse, muser, musing, ponderer, reflective, rumination, ruminative, ruminator, speculation, speculative, speculator, supposal, supposition, theorisation, theoriser, theorizer, theory

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

TOEIC700

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories:

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