Associations to the word «Speculator»

Wiktionary

SPECULATOR, noun. One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
SPECULATOR, noun. One who forms theories; a theorist.
SPECULATOR, noun. (business) (finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principle for the potential of substantial returns.

Dictionary definition

SPECULATOR, noun. Someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts.
SPECULATOR, noun. Someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope