Vocabulary
Speculative
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge.
Urdu meaning
قیاسی، سوچ بچار، فرضی، سٹا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Or it could be a treaty-based `Regional Reparation Commission for the Middle East` similar to the European convention for Ukraine.Preparing claims is by itself a tedious exercise and no official should come up with a speculative figure.
Dawn Editorials —
Who pays and how?
— 2026-04-25
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Real estate remains the most convenient and secure avenue for parking illegal or tax-evaded wealth, besides incentivising speculative activity over productive investment.
Dawn Editorials —
Real estate power
— 2026-04-24
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Currency market intervention isn`t necessarily controversial, and central banks do routinely step in to dampen disorderly swings, curb speculative overshooting and maintain market functioning.
Dawn Editorials —
Engineered stability
— 2026-04-03
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At present, a large share of overseas savings is poured into property which fuels speculative bubbles and leaves the economy short of the long-term capital needed for infrastructure and productive investment.
Dawn Editorials —
Security for retirees
— 2026-02-07
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Instead, wetlands are often treated as wasteland convenient sites for dumping, construction or speculative development.
Dawn Editorials —
Vanishing wetlands
— 2026-02-02
Synonyms
conjectural, suppositional, theoretical, hypothetical, based on guesswork, putative
Curator example
“he gave her a speculative glance”
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