speculative
adjective
pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning.
unspeculative
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a word derived from
speculative.
Example Sentences
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In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr Twitter was one of the unspeculative unfortunates, but he had not come quite down.
From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The philosopher condemns the poet as incapable of forming rational theological tenets, because his temper is unspeculative, or at most, carries him no farther than a materialistic philosophy.
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins
His mind was that of an administrator rather than that of a statesman, unspeculative, deficient in foresight, conservative, and eminently practical.
From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by John Richard Green
The fisherman Peter does not think with the mind of the theologically trained Paul, nor does the unspeculative James phrase his beliefs in terms identical with those of the writer to the Hebrews.
From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin
