Antonyms for tentative
ˈtɛn tə tɪvten·ta·tive

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1. tentative

   Antonyms:
   complete, constitutional, entire, essential, extreme, fundamental, ingrained, innate, native, natural, organic, original, perfect, positive, primitive, radical, thorough, thoroughgoing, total

   Synonyms:
   conservative, inadequate, incomplete, moderate, palliative, partial, slight, superficial, trial

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. tentative

   Antonyms:
   uniform, certain, sure, necessary, unfailing

   Synonyms:
   experimental, empirical, speculative

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

1. probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentativeadjective

   under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon

   "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"

   Antonyms:
   unconditioned, unconditional, settled

   Synonyms:
   provisional, provisionary, probationary, doubtful

2. doubtful, tentativeadjective

   unsettled in mind or opinion

   "drew a few tentative conclusions"

   Antonyms:
   settled, unconditioned, unconditional

   Synonyms:
   dubitable, probationary, provisionary, doubtful, in question(p), provisional, dubious

How to use tentative in a sentence?

1. Louis Pasteur:

   Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

2. Julie Brough:

   Going into June, markets really didn't believe Greece might default and leave the European Union, but over the last 10 days it had become a very realistic probability, now, with a new proposal ... You're getting a tentative rally off of that, though clearly not recovering everything that we've lost over it.

3. Barry Schwartz:

   After you have a blowout day like you did yesterday and then you had eight days in a row prior to that of dropping, one has to wonder if it is a dead-cat bounce or one has to wonder if there is follow-through, and so I can understand the market being tentative today.

4. Eric Bergh:

   Staff believes the tentative settlement is a positive step towards an ultimate resolution of this matter.

5. Cui Tiankai:

   It's quite clear it is the U.S. side that more than once changed its mind overnight and broke the tentative deal already reached. so we are still committed to whatever we agree to do, but it is the U.S. side that changed its mind so often.

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