Crossword-Solution: PROVISIONAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Provisional | a. | Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty. |
We have 54 clues for the answer “PROVISIONAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Just for the time being | 1 answer |
| Experimental. | 21 answers |
| For the time being | 25 answers |
| Tentative | 27 answers |
| inhibiting | 31 answers |
| tying | 31 answers |
| retarding | 32 answers |
| bridling | 32 answers |
| qualifying | 33 answers |
| coercive | 34 answers |
| Hobbling | 35 answers |
| obstructive | 35 answers |
| prohibitive | 36 answers |
| Selective | 37 answers |
| protem | 39 answers |
| disappearing | 40 answers |
| flitting | 40 answers |
| gliding by | 41 answers |
| Deciduous | 41 answers |
| dissipating | 41 answers |
| fugacious | 41 answers |
| concluding | 41 answers |
| flashing by | 42 answers |
| speeding by | 42 answers |
| visiting | 42 answers |
| Vanishing | 42 answers |
| Stopgap | 42 answers |
| perishable | 43 answers |
| nonce | 43 answers |
| Ebbing | 44 answers |
| discontinuous | 44 answers |
| controlling | 44 answers |
| Going by | 45 answers |
| migratory | 45 answers |
| transitory | 46 answers |
| evanescent | 47 answers |
| impermanent | 47 answers |
| Momentarily | 48 answers |
| momentary | 48 answers |
| to pass | 49 answers |
| Ephemeral | 51 answers |
| Swiftly | 53 answers |
| Fading | 54 answers |
| restrictive | 54 answers |
| Temporal | 55 answers |
| confining | 57 answers |
| Makeshift | 60 answers |
| departing | 62 answers |
| Hasty | 66 answers |
| interim | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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Sentences with PROVISIONAL (5)
The floors were roughly boarded over, and the stairways were in place, with provisional treads rudely laid.
Bernard had seen these ladies only in borrowed and provisional abodes; but here was a place where they were really living and which was stamped with their tastes, their habits, their charm.
Nevertheless, after he had passed out of the house and traversed the garden and the little piece of road that separated him from Eugenia’s provisional residence, he stopped a moment outside.
Mohamed SIAD Barre on 27 January 1991; the provisional government has promised that a democratically elected government will be established Judicial branch: Supreme Court (non-functioning) Political parties and leaders: the United Somali Congress (USC) ousted the former regime on 27 January 1991; formerly the only party was the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP), headed by former President and Commander in Chief of the Army Maj.
Formulations of some kind he would, no doubt, admit there must be, as in everything else; but with him all formulations and tabulations of beliefs, especially such as “make square to a finite eye the circle of infinity”, *1* are, at the best, only PROVISIONAL, and, at the worst, lead to spiritual standstill, spiritual torpor, “a ghastly smooth life, dead at heart.” *2* The essential nature of Christianity is contrary to special prescription, do this or do that, believe this or believe that.
Quotes with PROVISIONAL (3)
Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?''It isn't that simple. I don't mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I'm no expert in the history of religions, and perhaps this is nothing new--do you happen to know if there was ever a belief in an... imperfect God?''What do you mean by imperfect?' Snow frowned. 'In a way all the gods of the old religions were imperfect, considered that the…
Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise — — even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.
The self is constituted within a variety of arenas and in relation to multiple traditions. Self-hood, on this understanding, is both provisional and open-ended, and critically depends on the configuration of relationships between one’s own groups and those cultures and values that are deemed ‘other’. The regulation of alterity becomes a defining attribute of self-hood, as my sense of who I am is crucially mediated by an understanding of that which I am not (paraphrasing William Connolly).
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2004–2013).