tentatively

Adverb

Meaning

in a tentative manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

nisi carefully temporarily reluctantly experimentally gently weakly vaguely empirically controversially cautiously analytically provisionally ambiguously conditionally
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Antonyms

completely ultimately clearly certainly actively absolutely
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Anagrams

attentively

Examples

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement. Francis Crick

The Gran Sasso results could be seen as tentatively offering support for the big bang theory – if we could find a way to test that they are indeed travelling backwards in time. Jayant Narlikar

Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason than that he didn't get one in December. Saki

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff. Bjorn Lomborg

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. David K. Shipler

He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it. Arthur Eddington

Close letter words and terms

tentative proposal tentative trust tentative wound tentativeness tented tenten