Tentative
['tentətɪv] or ['tɛntətɪv]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
(n.) An essay; a trial; an experiment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Trying, essaying, experimental.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Experimental, empirical, speculative
ANT:Uniform, certain, sure, {[Mry]?}, unfailing
Editor: Nat
Definition
adj. trying: experimental.—n. any attempt conjecture.—adv. Ten′tatively.
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Examples
- It was a tentative reply, the man having a seafaring appearance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The next matter was the financing of the trip, about which Mr. Edison asked in a tentative way about the rates to the East. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At best they are tentative; they are suggestions, indications. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Riviere continued to study him with tentative eyes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She made all European progress seem sluggish and tentative by comparison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As his words are few and his manner reticent and tentative, so must the style of his interpreter be. Plato. The Republic.
- The conclusions of thinking, till confirmed by the event, are, accordingly, more or less tentative or hypothetical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Tentative means trying out, feeling one's way along provisionally. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The projection of consequences means a proposed or tentative solution. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The possibility of hypothetical conclusions, of tentative results, is the fact which the Greek dilemma overlooked. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The aim as it first emerges is a mere tentative sketch. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Rene