speculatively

1. 1.

   with speculation; in a speculative manner

   “he looked at her speculatively”

Questions about speculatively

What does speculatively mean?

speculatively means "with speculation; in a speculative manner".

How many syllables are in speculatively?

speculatively has 6 syllables: spe-cu-la-ti-ve-ly. The stress falls on "ti".

Is speculatively a common word?

speculatively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.