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tentative - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: tentative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conditional, experimental
Synonyms: acting, conjectural, contingent, dependent, iffy*, indefinite, makeshift, on trial, provisional, speculative, subject to change, temporary, test, trial, undecided, unsettled, ad interim, not final, not settled, open for consideration, probationary, provisionary, provisory, unconfirmed
Antonyms: certain, decisive, definite, final, sure
Main Entry: tentative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indefinite, uncertain
Synonyms: backward, cautious, diffident, disinclined, doubtful, halting, hesitant, irresolute, reluctant, timid, undecided, unsure, vacillating, wobbly, faltering, vacillatory
Antonyms: certain, conclusive, definite, sure
Main Entry: cautious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, guarded
Synonyms: alert, all ears, cagey, calculating, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, forethoughtful, gingerly, hedging one's bets, heedful, judicious, keeping on one's toes, leery, on the lookout, playing it cool, playing safe, politic, provident, prudent, pussyfoot*, safe, shrewd, taking it easy, taking it slow, tentative, thinking twice, vigilant, walking on eggs, wary, watchful, watching one's step, watching out, with one's eyes peeled
Antonyms: careless, hasty, heedless, imprudent, incautious, rash, thoughtless, uncareful, unguarded, unobservant
Main Entry: conditional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dependent
Synonyms: contingent, depending on, fortuitous, guarded, iffy*, incidental, inconclusive, limited, modified, obscure, provisional, qualified, relative, restricted, restrictive, subject to, tentative, uncertain, codicillary, granted on certain terms, not absolute, provisory, reliant, relying on, with grain of salt, with reservations, with strings attached
Antonyms: independent, unconditional, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted
Main Entry: conjectural
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: speculative
Synonyms: academic, assumed, doubtful, guessing, hypothetical, putative, reputed, supposed, suspect, tentative, theoretical, uncertain, unresolved, figured, guesstimated, on a hunch, on a long shot, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, surmised, surmising
Antonyms: certain, factual, real, truthful, proven
Main Entry: experimental
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exploratory
Synonyms: beginning, empirical, laboratory, momentary, pilot, preliminary, preparatory, primary, provisional, speculative, temporary, tentative, test, trial, developmental, experiential, first stage, on approval, probationary, trial-and-error, unconcluded, under probation, unproved
Antonyms: tested, tried, proven
Main Entry: halting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hesitant
Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, doubtful, gauche, imperfect, indecisive, inept, irresolute, labored, lumbering, maladroit, slow, tentative, uncertain, vacillating, wavering, wooden*, bumbling, claudicant, faltering, limping, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unhandy, vacillatory
Antonyms: flowing, smooth, unhesitating
Main Entry: hesitant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uncertain, waiting
Synonyms: afraid, averse, backward, delaying, diffident, disinclined, doubtful, doubting, half-hearted, halting, hesitating, indecisive, irresolute, lazy, loath, reluctant, shy, skeptical, slow, tentative, timid, unpredictable, unsure, unwilling, vacillating, wavering, dawdling, faltering, hanging back, lacking confidence, uneager
Antonyms: certain, definite, resolute, sure, unwavering, unhesitant
Main Entry: indecisive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uncertain, indefinite
Synonyms: changeable, doubtful, halting, hesitant, hesitating, inconclusive, indeterminate, irresolute, on the fence*, tentative, unclear, undecided, undetermined, uneventful, unsettled, unstable, vacillating, wavering, wishy-washy*, astraddle, faltering, hemming and hawing, hot and cold, of two minds, waffling, weak-kneed
Antonyms: certain, decisive, definite, deliberate, determined, sure
Main Entry: irresolute
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indecisive
Synonyms: changing, doubtful, doubting, fearful, fickle, halfhearted*, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, shaky, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, weak, wishy-washy*, wobbly, faltering, fluctuating, hot-and-cold, on-the-fence, waffling, weak-kneed, wimpy
Antonyms: definite, determined, obstinate, resolute, stubborn, unyielding, willful
Main Entry: noncommittal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unwilling to decide
Synonyms: ambiguous, careful, cautious, circumspect, discreet, equivocal, evasive, guarded, hush-hush*, indefinite, judicious, middle-of-the-road*, neutral, politic, reserved, restrained, tactful, tentative, vague, wary, buttoned up, clammed up, constrained, even-steven, incommunicable, middle-ground, on-the-fence, temporizing, unrevealing, zipped
Antonyms: decisive, definite, willing, committal, judgemental
Main Entry: on the fence
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: undecided
Synonyms: ambivalent, borderline, debatable, divided, hesitant, iffy*, impartial, indecisive, irresolute, neutral, open, tentative, torn, uncertain, unclear, uncommitted, undetermined, unsure, up in the air, wavering, wishy-washy*, betwixt and between, blowing hot and cold, hemming and hawing, in the middle, not definite, not sure, of two minds, running hot and cold, waffling
Main Entry: subject
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: at the mercy of; answerable
Synonyms: accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub*, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable
Antonyms: master
Main Entry: substitute
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: alternative
Synonyms: acting, additional, alternate, another, artificial, backup, counterfeit, dummy, ersatz*, experimental, false, imitation, makeshift, mock, near, other, provisional, proxy, pseudo*, replacement, representative, reserve, second, sham, simulated, spurious, stopgap*, supplemental, supplementary, surrogate, symbolic, temporary, tentative, vicarious, substitutive, supposititious, vicarial
Main Entry: theoretical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hypothetical
Synonyms: abstract, academic, analytical, assumed, conjectural, contingent, general, ideal, imaginative, impractical, intellectual, logical, metaphysical, on paper*, pedantic, philosophical, pure, quixotic, speculative, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unsubstantiated, vague, as a premise, codified, formalistic, formularized, idealized, ideational, ideological, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, notional, postulated, presumed, problematical, suppositional, unproved
Notes: empirical describes results determined by experiment and observed behavior or facts; theoretical describes results that are based on guesswork or hypothesis - and pragmatic is contrasted with theoretical on the grounds that the former proceeds from what is demonstrably practical, the latter from conjecture
Antonyms: certain, definite, factual, real, proven
Main Entry: trial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: experimental
Synonyms: balloon, pilot, preliminary, provisional, tentative, test, testing, exploratory, probationary
Antonyms: definite, known, proven
Main Entry: undecided
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not sure, not definite
Synonyms: ambivalent, borderline, debatable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hesitant, iffy*, indecisive, indefinite, irresolute, moot, on the fence*, open, pending, tentative, torn, uncertain, unclear, uncommitted, undetermined, unfinished, unsettled, unsure, up in the air, vague, wavering, wishy-washy*, betwixt and between, blowing hot and cold, dithering, hemming and hawing, in the middle, of two minds, pendent, running hot and cold, waffling
Antonyms: certain, decided, definite, determined, settled, sure, undoubted
Main Entry: unfinished
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not completed
Synonyms: amateurish, bare, crude, cut short, defective, deficient, dilettante, faulty, formless, fragmentary, half-baked*, immature, imperfect, incomplete, lacking, natural, plain, raw, rough, shapeless, sketchy, tentative, unadorned, undeveloped, undone, unpolished, unrefined, wanting, dabbling, found wanting, half-done, in the making, in the rough, not done, roughhewn, unaccomplished, unassembled, uncompleted, unconcluded, under construction, unexecuted, unfashioned, unfulfilled, unperfected
Antonyms: completed, finished, polished, refined, whole
Main Entry: weak-minded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indecisive
Synonyms: changeable, hesitant, hesitating, indeterminate, irresolute, on the fence*, spineless, tentative, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, wavering, wishy-washy*, astraddle, hemming and hawing, waffling, weak-kneed, without guts, yellow-bellied
Main Entry: subject to change
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uncertain
Synonyms: conditional, proposed, tentative, not carved in stone, not firmed up
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