speculant

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A speculator; one who makes speculative (high-risk) investments.
    — They moreover also belonged to those securities which speculants neglected at the beginning, which is perhaps sufficiently explained by the position of the rubber market and by the rubber price.
  2. A profiteer or illegal trader.
    — In this way the danger threatening the population from unscrupulous speculants was averted and the prices were kept down.
  3. One who thinks about speculative subjects; one who dreams, extrapolates, or conjectures.
    — To shew that the plan is not the vague dream of a speculant, Mr. Jones sent full-sized patterns pinned on a sheet of paper cut exactly to the length and width of material stated.
形容词 adj.
  1. Speculative or hopefully wondering.
    — I essayed to arise out of my chair, that I might render a beseeming homage unto so excellent a presence but was prevented; amazement having fixed me agaze and half risen, as a statue of wonder; leaving to mine eyes only the power of a speculant admiration.

词形变化

speculants plural more speculant comparative most speculant superlative
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