speculate
verb (used without object)
to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
unspeculating
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a word derived from
speculate.
Example Sentences
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But in fact, he plods humbly along, and repeats with patient toil the example of labor and unspeculating perseverance that his fathers have set him.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
The record of the visual world fell through his eyes upon his unspeculating mind as on a sensitized plate through the lens of a camera.
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
He simply stood listening, fixed and motionless, like some uncouth statue in the leafy hollow of a garden, stony, unspeculating.
From The Return by Walter De la Mare
