anti-speculative

adjective

an·​ti-spec·​u·​la·​tive ˌan-tē-ˈspe-kyə-lə-tiv 

-ˌlā-, 

ˌan-tī- 

variants or less commonly antispeculative

: serving or intended to discourage or restrict financial speculation : anti-speculation

The government's wartime policies also repressed private finance in multiple and reinforcing ways, including … an intensification of the anti-speculative financial regulation of the New Deal.

—Robert Kuttner

Examples of anti-speculative in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Critics find that the surge of anti-speculative ticketing bills around the country is a way for Ticketmaster to divert attention from its own legal troubles and shift attention onto the resale market. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-speculative

• rehabilitative
• semiquantitative
• unappreciative
• uncommunicative
• accommodative
• accumulative
• adjudicative
• administrative
• affiliative
• agglutinative
• ameliorative
• appreciative