Word Meanings - TENTATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." Carlyle. -- Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TENTATIVE)

• Empirical
• Experimental
• tentative

Related words: (words related to TENTATIVE)

• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• TENTATIVE
  Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." Carlyle. -- Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.
• EMPIRICALLY
  By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
• EXPERIMENTALLY
  By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.
• EXPERIMENTALIST
  One who makes experiments; an experimenter. Whaterly.
• EXPERIMENTALIZE
  To make experiments ; to experiment. J. S. Mill.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SUSTENTATIVE
  Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations. Sustentative functions , those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.
• EMPIRIC; EMPIRICAL
  1. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience
• PRETENTATIVE
  Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental. Sir H. Wotton.
• METEMPIRIC; METEMPIRICAL
  Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics. If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. G. H. Lewes.