Word Meanings - SPECULATIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who speculates, or forms theories; a speculator; a theorist. The very ingenious speculatist, Mr. Hume. V. Knox.

Related words: (words related to SPECULATIST)

• INGENIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.
• SPECULATORY
  1. Intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight. T. Warton. 2. Exercising speculation; speculative. T. Carew.
• SPECULATIST
  One who speculates, or forms theories; a speculator; a theorist. The very ingenious speculatist, Mr. Hume. V. Knox.
• INGENIOUS
  1. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic. A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war. Hakluyt. Thou,
• THEORIST
  One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist. Cowper. The greatest theoretists have given the preference to such a government as that which obtains in this kingdom. Addison.
• SPECULATORIAL
  Speculatory; speculative.
• SPECULATOR
  One who speculates. Specifically: An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher. Sir T. Browne. One who forms theories; a theorist. A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal. Macaulay.
• INGENIOUSLY
  In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; skillfully; wittily; cleverly. "Too ingeniously politic." Sir W. Temple.