Synonyms:
probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative
Meaning: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"
Usage examples
Tentative means trying out, feeling one's way along provisionally.
The projection of consequences means a proposed or tentative solution.
The possibility of hypothetical conclusions, of tentative results, is the fact which the Greek dilemma overlooked.
The conclusions of thinking, till confirmed by the event, are, accordingly, more or less tentative or hypothetical.
But in the degree in which he is actively thinking, and not merely passively following the course of events, his tentative inferences will take effect in a method of procedure appropriate to his situation.
It was difficult to interrogate without appearing to suggest; Pansy's supreme simplicity, an innocence even more complete than Isabel had yet judged it, gave to the most tentative enquiry something of the effect of an admonition.
Systematic advance in invention and discovery began when men recognized that they could utilize doubt for purposes of inquiry by forming conjectures to guide action in tentative explorations, whose development would confirm, refute, or modify the guiding conjecture.