wonder vs speculate
speculate vs wonderwonder is a noun but speculate is not a noun.
wonder and speculate both are verbs.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wonder | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| speculate | No | No | Yes | No |
As verbs,
speculate is a hypernym of
wonder; that is, speculate is a
word with a broader meaning than wonder:
- wonder: place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
- speculate: reflect deeply on a subject
Other hypernyms of wonder include
chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think over.
| wonder (noun) | speculate (noun) |
|---|---|
| a state in which you want to learn more about something | |
| something that causes feelings of wonder | |
| the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising |
| wonder (verb) | speculate (verb) |
|---|---|
| have a wish or desire to know something | reflect deeply on a subject |
| place in doubt or express doubtful speculation | to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds |
| be amazed at | talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion |
| invest at a risk |
Words related to "wonder"
- admiration
- amazement
- astonishment
- awe
- chew over
- cognitive state
- contemplate
- curiosity
- curiousness
- desire to know
- enquire
- excogitate
- happening
- inquire
- inquisitiveness
- interest
- involvement
- lust for learning
- marvel
- meditate
- mull
- mull over
- muse
- natural event
- occurrence
- occurrent
- ponder
- query
- question
- react
- reflect
- request
- respond
- ruminate
- scruple
- speculate
- state of mind
- think over
- thirst for knowledge
- wonderer
- wonderment
- wondrous
Words related to "speculate"
- anticipate
- bethink
- bull
- cerebrate
- chew over
- cogitate
- commit
- conjecture
- consider
- construct
- contemplate
- develop
- excogitate
- expect
- explicate
- formulate
- guess
- hazard
- hypothecate
- hypothesise
- hypothesize
- introspect
- invest
- job
- meditate
- mull
- mull over
- muse
- place
- ponder
- premeditate
- pretend
- put
- puzzle
- question
- reason
- reconstruct
- reflect
- retrace
- ruminate
- say
- speculation
- speculative
- speculator
- study
- suppose
- theologise
- theologize
- theorise
- theorize
- think
- think over
- venture
- wonder
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