Tentative

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tentative \Ten*ta"tive\, a. [L. tentare to try: cf. F. tentatif.
     See {Tempt}.]
     Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying;
     experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." --Carlyle. --
     {Ten*ta"tive*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tentative \Ten*ta"tive\, n. [Cf. F. tentative.]
     An essay; a trial; an experiment. --Berkley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tentative
       adj 1: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon;
              "probationary employees"; "a provisional government";
              "just a tentative schedule" [syn: {probationary}, {provisional},
               {provisionary}]
       2: unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative
          conclusions" [syn: {doubtful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  233 Moby Thesaurus words for "tentative":
     acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, alternative, ambling,
     analytic, apprehensive, awkward, backup, band-aid, blankminded,
     callow, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, claudicant,
     counterfeit, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, cut-and-try,
     dangerous, deliberate, demurring, desultory, determined, diffident,
     discreet, disinclined, dumb, dummy, easy, empirical, empty,
     empty-headed, equivalent, ersatz, examinational, examinatorial,
     examining, experimental, explorational, explorative, exploratory,
     fact-finding, fake, faltering, feeling, flagging, foot-dragging,
     gauche, gentle, gingerly, gradual, green, groping, guarded,
     halting, hazardous, heedful, hesitant, hesitating, heuristic,
     hit-or-miss, hobbled, hobbling, idle, ignorant, imitation,
     improvisational, improvised, inane, indagative, indecisive,
     indolent, inexperienced, infirm, innocent, insecure, inspectional,
     inspectorial, insubstantial, interim, investigational,
     investigative, investigatory, irresolute, jibbing, judicious,
     jury-rigged, know-nothing, languid, languorous, lazy,
     leaving out nothing, leisurely, limping, lumbering, makeshift,
     makeshifty, mindful, mock, moderate, naive, nescient, noncommittal,
     on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, perilous, phony,
     pilot, pinch, poking, poky, politic, precarious, probationary,
     probative, probatory, proving, provisional, provisory, proxy,
     prudent, raw, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, reserve, resolute,
     risky, safe, sauntering, scrupling, secondary, shaky, shifting,
     shifty, shilly-shallying, shuffling, shy, simple, slack, slippery,
     slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
     slow to act, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged,
     slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing,
     slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, spare, speculative,
     staggering, sticking, stickling, stopgap, straining, strange to,
     strolling, substitute, temporary, test, testing, thorough,
     ticklish, timid, toddling, token, tortoiselike, tottering,
     treacherous, trial, trial-and-error, trudging, trying, turtlelike,
     unacquainted, unadventurous, unapprized, uncertain,
     uncommunicative, uncomprehending, unconversant, undaring,
     undependable, uneasy, unenlightened, unenterprising, unfaithworthy,
     unfamiliar, unhurried, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated,
     unintelligent, unknowing, unposted, unprecipitate, unreliable,
     unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure,
     untrustworthy, unversed, utility, vacillatory, vacuous,
     venturesome, verificatory, vicarious, waddling, willing, wobbly,
     zetetic