Circumspect vs Speculate - What's the difference?
circumspect | speculate |
Carefully aware of all circumstances; considerate of all that is pertinent.
To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
* Hawthorne
To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
As an adjective circumspect
is carefully aware of all circumstances; considerate of all that is pertinent.As a verb speculate is
to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.circumspect
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Being aware of the danger of upsetting her audience, she was somewhat circumspect in her comments.
Synonyms
* (carefully aware of all circumstances) cautious, chary, prudent, thoughtful, vigilant, waryDerived terms
* circumspectly * circumspectivespeculate
English
Verb
(speculat)- It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}