tentative
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
233 Moby Thesaurus words for "tentative":
acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, alternative, ambling,
analytic, apprehensive, awkward, backup, band-aid, blankminded,
callow, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, claudicant,
counterfeit, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, cut-and-try,
dangerous, deliberate, demurring, desultory, determined, diffident,
discreet, disinclined, dumb, dummy, easy, empirical, empty,
empty-headed, equivalent, ersatz, examinational, examinatorial,
examining, experimental, explorational, explorative, exploratory,
fact-finding, fake, faltering, feeling, flagging, foot-dragging,
gauche, gentle, gingerly, gradual, green, groping, guarded,
halting, hazardous, heedful, hesitant, hesitating, heuristic,
hit-or-miss, hobbled, hobbling, idle, ignorant, imitation,
improvisational, improvised, inane, indagative, indecisive,
indolent, inexperienced, infirm, innocent, insecure, inspectional,
inspectorial, insubstantial, interim, investigational,
investigative, investigatory, irresolute, jibbing, judicious,
jury-rigged, know-nothing, languid, languorous, lazy,
leaving out nothing, leisurely, limping, lumbering, makeshift,
makeshifty, mindful, mock, moderate, naive, nescient, noncommittal,
on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, perilous, phony,
pilot, pinch, poking, poky, politic, precarious, probationary,
probative, probatory, proving, provisional, provisory, proxy,
prudent, raw, regardful, relaxed, reluctant, reserve, resolute,
risky, safe, sauntering, scrupling, secondary, shaky, shifting,
shifty, shilly-shallying, shuffling, shy, simple, slack, slippery,
slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
slow to act, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged,
slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing,
slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, spare, speculative,
staggering, sticking, stickling, stopgap, straining, strange to,
strolling, substitute, temporary, test, testing, thorough,
ticklish, timid, toddling, token, tortoiselike, tottering,
treacherous, trial, trial-and-error, trudging, trying, turtlelike,
unacquainted, unadventurous, unapprized, uncertain,
uncommunicative, uncomprehending, unconversant, undaring,
undependable, uneasy, unenlightened, unenterprising, unfaithworthy,
unfamiliar, unhurried, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated,
unintelligent, unknowing, unposted, unprecipitate, unreliable,
unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure,
untrustworthy, unversed, utility, vacillatory, vacuous,
venturesome, verificatory, vicarious, waddling, willing, wobbly,
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