Expected vs Speculated - What's the difference?
expected | speculated |
Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur
(expect)
(speculate)
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 verbs the difference between expected and speculated
is that expected is (expect) while speculated is (speculate).As an adjective expected
is anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur.expected
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The expected storm never arrived.
Antonyms
* unexpected * surprising * unlikelyDerived terms
* expectedly * expectednessVerb
(head)Statistics
*Anagrams
*speculated
English
Verb
(head)speculate
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; […].}}
