1. tentative - Noun
2. tentative - Adjective
3. tentative - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhile historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone. Colm Tóibín
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited. George Wald
Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together. Jeff Grubb
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. Jerome Bruner
For me any of the little gestures I make are all tentative probes. That's why I feel free to make them sound as outrageous or extreme as possible. Until you make it extreme, the probe is not very efficient. Marshall McLuhan
Conceptual expressions are tentative and provisional... [because] the intellectual account... are constructed theories of experience. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan