Synonyms for tentative
ˈtɛn tə tɪvten·ta·tive

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1. tentative

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

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

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1. tentative

   Synonyms:
   experimental, empirical, speculative

   Antonyms:
   uniform, certain, sure, necessary, unfailing

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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"

   Synonyms:
   provisional, provisionary, probationary, doubtful

   Antonyms:
   unconditioned, unconditional, settled

2. doubtful, tentativeadjective

   unsettled in mind or opinion

   "drew a few tentative conclusions"

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

   Antonyms:
   settled, unconditioned, unconditional

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1. tentativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   trying, essaying, experimental

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1. List of paraphrases for "tentative":

   provisional, interim, indicative, preliminary, timid, temporary, hourly, hesitant, shy, initial, terminable, draft, principled

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1. Jerome Seymour Bruner:

   The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

2. Lisa Shalett:

   One of the key things the December selloff did was it priced a materially reduced set of earnings expectations for 2019. As a result, investors are going to be somewhat forgiving of companies who either miss estimates or are somewhat tentative in their guidance because they are now expecting that, any companies that talk about 2019 being just as good as 2018 or even sequentially a lot better are going to constitute an upside surprise.

3. Yang Weixiao:

   The tentative economic recovery is the result of the relatively easy financing environment during the previous period, the trend could be sustained until the end of the third quarter, when downward pressure will likely resurface.

4. Bill Wirskye:

   We've reached a tentative agreement between the parties.

5. Alvaro Jimenez:

   Demining will be a long and complicated process that the government has said can be completed by 2025. Ten years is a tentative estimate but it's possible. The agreement shows there's political will from the government and FARC, this is a historic decision that will eradicate a big threat facing farmers and communities in rural areas and change their daily reality.