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. Eric Theoret:

   The broader market tone is showing signs of tentative risk appetite, bolstered by continued stability in China's exchange rate and reinforced by the release of better-than-feared trade figures out of China.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Andy Przybylski:

   Second, the study doesn't measure either digital media use or ADHD directly. For both the study relies on survey responses provided by the student in question. It is not clear if teachers or parents would rate the children similarly or if the self-reported measure of digital screen use is correlated with either actual behaviour or higher quality survey items, finally, because this was an exploratory study, instead of a registered or confirmatory study, the results must be understood as tentative.