speculatively
English
Etymology
From speculative + -ly.
Adverb
speculatively (comparative more speculatively, superlative most speculatively)
- In a speculative manner.
- 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, , page 430:
- […] 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.
Translations
in a speculative manner
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