[…] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.
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Speculatively
Synonyms for "speculatively" (12 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Adverb(3 words)
Strong matches (3)
Adverb(3 words)
Related words (6)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesadverb of mannerlinguistic adverb
More specific
6 entriesfuture oriented adverbhedged adverbmodel based adverbprobabilistic adverbtheoretical adverbtheory driven adverb
Collocations
5 entriesspeculatively estimatespeculatively hypothesizespeculatively inferspeculatively interpretspeculatively propose
Inflections
2 entriesmore speculativelymost speculatively
Derivations
3 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The fleet had been ordered speculatively by Beacon Rail, and intended as heavy shunting and trip locomotives, as well as a viable low-emission replacement for the elderly Class 08/09 'BR Standard large shunter' which dates from the 1950s and 1960s.
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