| Main Entry: | speculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory, guess |
Synonyms: |
belief, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, conjecture, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, excogitation, guesstimate, guesswork, hunch, hypothesis, meditation, opinion, reflection, review, shot, shot in the dark, sneaking suspicion, stab, stab in the dark, studying, supposition, surmise, thinking, thought, weighing |
Antonyms: |
fact, information, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | speculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | risk, gamble |
Synonyms: |
backing, flier, flutter, gambling, hazard, hunch, piece, plunge, right money, risky business, risky venture, shot, shot in the dark, smart money, spec, speculative enterprise, stab*, venture, wager |
Antonyms: |
abstention |
| Main Entry: | adventure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | risky or unexpected undertaking |
Synonyms: |
chance, contingency, emprise, endangerment, enterprise, experience, exploit, feat, happening, hazard, incident, jeopardy, occurrence, peril, scene, speculation, trip, undertaking, venture |
Antonyms: |
avoidance, inaction, inactivity, inertia, latency, passiveness, stillness |
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | game of chance; money gambled |
Synonyms: |
action, ante, betting, chance, down on, hazard, long shot, lot, lottery, odds, odds on, parlay, play, pledge, plunge, pot, raffle, random shot, risk, shot, shot in the dark, speculation, stake, sweepstakes, uncertainty, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gamble, risk |
Synonyms: |
bet, craps game, fall of the cards, hazard, jeopardy, lottery, raffle, speculation, stake, throw of the dice, try, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | cogitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep thought |
Synonyms: |
brainwork, cerebration, consideration, contemplation, deliberation, meditation, reflection, rumination, speculation |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
Synonyms: |
apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
Antonyms: |
being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | deduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, understanding |
Synonyms: |
answer, assumption, cogitation, concluding, consequence, consideration, contemplation, corollary, deliberation, derivation, finding, illation, inference, inferring, judgment, meditation, mulling, musing, opinion, pondering, ratiocination, reasoning, reflection, result, rumination, sequitur, speculation, thinking, thought |
Antonyms: |
confusion |
| Main Entry: | deliberation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serious thought, discussion |
Synonyms: |
application, attention, brainwork, calculation, care, carefulness, caution, cerebration, circumspection, cogitation, confabulation, conference, consideration, consultation, debate, forethought, heed, meditation, prudence, purpose, rap, ratiocination, reflection, speculation, study, ventilation, wariness |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, vision |
Synonyms: |
bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, delusion, fancy, fantasy, hallucination, head trip, idea, image, imagination, impression, incubus, mental picture, nightmare, pie in the sky, pipe dream, rainbow, reverie, specter, speculation, thought, trance, vagary, wraith |
Antonyms: |
actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, truth |