Bad and Speculative

Bad

Bad adjective - Not financially safe or secure.
Usage example: a bad investment

Speculative is a synonym for bad. In some cases you can use "Speculative" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Speculative

Speculative adjective - Not financially safe or secure.
Usage example: speculative business enterprises

Bad is a synonym for speculative. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Speculative".

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Cyber Punk It's hard to condemn speculative technology when it becomes actual technology and we realize that, hey, it's not so bad.
    Source: Cyber Punk
  • There's also Clockwork, a speculative historical fiction movie that neither Edith nor Oz like, and a trashy romance novel called The Nightingale's Lover, which Word of God confirms is basically bad in-universe fanfiction starring Gilbert.
  • Creator / Marion Zimmer Bradley Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.— Marion Zimmer BradleyMarion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999) was a prolific Speculative Fiction and Fantasy writer who was often regarded as having a feminist bent to her work.
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