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".
Speculative
Speculative adjective - Not financially safe or secure.
Usage example: speculative business enterprises
Both words in one sentence
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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.
Source: Fanfic / Beyond The Winding Road -
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.
Source: Creator / Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Speculative or Bad. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bad/speculative.
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