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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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
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
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
