Crossword-Solution: TENTATIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tentative | a. | Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. |
| Tentative | n. | An essay; a trial; an experiment. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TENTATIVE | anagram | ATTENTIVE |
We have 17 clues for the answer “TENTATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Only penciled in | 1 answer |
| Not etched in stone | 1 answer |
| Not definite yet | 1 answer |
| Not carved in stone | 1 answer |
| Full of hedges | 1 answer |
| Not final | 2 answers |
| Empirical | 7 answers |
| exploratory | 7 answers |
| hanging back | 9 answers |
| Not fixed | 15 answers |
| Back and forth | 18 answers |
| Experimental. | 21 answers |
| Up in the air | 50 answers |
| provisional | 54 answers |
| Cautious | 72 answers |
| Hesitant | 77 answers |
| Uncertain | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TENTATIVE (5)
Following October 1990, however, a tentative peace has enabled the central government to begin restoring control in Beirut, collect taxes, and regain access to key port and government facilities.
INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM GIBSON by Giuseppe Salza ****This interview will be included in the book "Net-Surfers" (tentative title) by Giuseppe Salza, to be published by "Theoria Edizioni" in Italy in Spring 1995**** CANNES.
His excitement to declare his affection left him without the capacity for coherent speech, so that only tentative and confused phrases stumbled from his mouth.
Bry’s wavering eye while she gave this explanation, but when it was over Selden saw her send a tentative glance from one to another of the women’s faces.
Thus, a tale, for example, dealing either with "feminism" or "white slavery" as the handiest makeshift of spinsterdom--or with the divorce habit and plutocratic iniquity in general, or with the probable benefits of converting clergymen to Christianity, or with how much more than she knows a desirable mother will tell her children--finds the book's tentative explorer, just now, amply equipped with prejudices, whether acquired by second thought or second hand, concerning the book's topic.
Quotes with TENTATIVE (3)
Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political situations. The quality and depth of the politics evolving from a group depends in large part on their understanding of honor. Much of what is narrowly termed "politics" seems to rest on a longing for certainty even at the cost of honesty, for an analysis which, once given, need not be re-examined…It isn't that to have an honorable relationship …
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.
Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical spirit: namely, the commitment to the incessant testing of assertions through observations and/or experiments — the more stringent the tests, the better — and to revising or discarding those theories that fail the test. One corollar…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1950–2019).