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View synonyms for tentatively

tentatively

[ ten-tuh-tiv-lee ]

adverb

  1. as a trial, experiment, or attempt:

    Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for the 8th of June.

  2. in a hesitant or uncertain manner:

    She spoke tentatively, but apparently thought better of it and stopped.



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  • non·ten·ta·tive·ly adverb

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Example Sentences

Three decades later, the EEGs of distance-separated twins were studied and tentatively found to correlate.

Police tentatively identified the other woman but did not immediately release her name.

The efforts are proceeding slowly and tentatively because the price differential of the fuel is only one factor to consider.

He tentatively suggested that the text is a pastiche compiled by a modern forger with an elementary grasp of Coptic.

He got a job as a cook in a local hotel, which was reportedly haunted, and began tentatively to put down roots.

We next arranged tentatively for a brick veranda with a pergola top on the southern end of the house, and then went upstairs.

Stella suggested tentatively a tiny Japanese moon bridge above the pool, but I would have none of it.

"I mean, I never had a fixed and definite idea that I proceeded to apply, as you have done," she explained tentatively.

Tentatively he pulled at the container cover, it was as firm as if it had been welded on.

Tentatively, he pushed a slide he remembered touching before.

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