tentativeadjective
uk/ˈten.tə.tɪv/us/ˈten.t̬ə.t̬ɪv/(of a plan or idea) not certain or agreed, or (of a suggestion or action) said or done in a careful but uncertain way because you do not know if you are right:
I have tentative plans to take a trip to Seattle in July.
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Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unconfirmed
- vague
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tentatively
adverb uk/ˈten.tə.tɪv.li/us/ˈten.t̬ə.t̬ɪv.li/
If you do or say something tentatively, you do or say it in an uncertain way.
tentativeness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈten.tə.tɪv.nəs/us/ˈten.t̬ə.t̬ɪv.nəs/