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Definition: Tentatively |
TentativelyAdverb1. In a tentative manner; "we agreed tentatively on a dinner date". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tentatively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Crosswords: Tentatively |
| English words defined with "tentatively": approximate ♦ Cycliophora ♦ estimate ♦ float ♦ gauge, guess ♦ judge ♦ phylum Cycliophora. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tentatively": Good and All ♦ Receptors, Leukotriene, Receptors, Prostaglandin. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Computer generated surface view of a corona, tentatively named Idem-Kuva.Credit: NASA. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Once symptoms appear, the condition may be tentatively diagnosed based on a physical examination and a patient's medical history. (references) | |
Business | Dates for next year's exhibition (INTERSEC 2001) has been tentatively set for January 23-25, 2001. Foreign firms are encouraged to participate. (references) | |
The UMTS license will tentatively be awarded in 2001. The operators who wish to bid for the license will first pay an up-front entry fee, and then will be judged on their merits rather than on financial capabilities. (references) | ||
DallesExpo-2001 is tentatively scheduled for May 22-25, 2001. The U.S. Commercial Service in Vladivostok is planning to host a conference and catalog show at DallesExpo-2001, promoting U.S.-manufactured forestry and wood-working equipment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | Drilling is tentatively scheduled for 2003. Nevertheless, exploration promise is not production. (references) |
Sudan | A constitutional conference was tentatively planned for September 1989. The military government, which took over on June 30, 1989, however, repudiated the DUP/SPLA agreement and state it wished to negotiate with the SPLA without preconditions. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | The Hungarian Jewish community tentatively accepted the Government's proposal, but negotiations continued over the payment of accrued interest. (references) |
Political Economy | Nigeria | The next elections are tentatively set for April 2002 (local government areas), January 2003 (governors/state assemblies), and February 2003 (President/national assembly). (references) |
Trade | Indonesia | The next CGI meeting is tentatively scheduled for November 2001 in Jakarta. (references) |
Luxembourg | Originally planned to be implemented in 2000, this Directive has tentatively been pushed back to 2010. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tentatively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.73% of the time. "Tentatively" is used about 368 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.73% | 367 | 14,753 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 368 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tentatively | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tentatively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مؤقتا (temporarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | колебливо (gropingly, hesitantly), като начало, временно (for the nonce, provisionally, temporarily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 试探性地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | alustavasti (preliminarily, provisionally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | timidement, provisoirement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vorläufige (provisionally), versuchsweise (as a trial, by way of trial, experimentally, on probation, tentative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | próbaképpen, kísérletileg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 一往 (for the time being, in outline, once), 一応 (for the time being, in outline, once). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いちおう (for the time being, in outline, once). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 시험 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entativelytay в порядке эксперимента. (various references) preliminära. (various references) deneme olarak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Tentatively" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tantatively, tenatively, tentaively, tentativaly, tentativily, tentativley, tetatively. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tentatively" (pronounced te"ntutivlē or te"ntuvlē) |
| 7 | -t u t i v l ē | competitively. |
| 6 | -u t i v l ē | affirmatively, alternatively, comparatively, consecutively, conservatively, cooperatively, cumulatively, definitively, figuratively, imaginatively, intuitively, negatively, positively, prohibitively, provocatively, relatively, sensitively. |
| 5 | -t i v l ē | accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, collectively, constructively, creatively, deceptively, distinctively, effectively, exhaustively, furtively, instinctively, legislatively, objectively, preemptively, productively, prospectively, protectively, qualitatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, substantively. |
| 4 | -i v l ē | aggressively, cohesively, comprehensively, compulsively, conclusively, decisively, defensively, derisively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, expensively, explosively, extensively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, inexpensively, intensively, massively, obsessively, offensively, passively, persuasively, progressively, reflexively, successively. |
| 3 | -v l ē | bravely, gravely, lively, lovely, naively, plaintively, quantitatively. |
| 5 | -t u v l ē | quantitatively. |
| 3 | -v l ē | accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, affirmatively, aggressively, alternatively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, bravely, cohesively, collectively, comparatively, competitively, comprehensively, compulsively, conclusively, consecutively, conservatively, constructively, cooperatively, creatively, cumulatively, deceptively, decisively, defensively, definitively, derisively, distinctively, effectively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, exhaustively, expensively, explosively, extensively, figuratively, furtively, gravely, imaginatively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, inexpensively, instinctively, intensively, intuitively, legislatively, lively, lovely, massively, naively, negatively, objectively, obsessively, offensively, passively, persuasively, plaintively, positively, preemptively, productively, progressively, prohibitively, prospectively, protectively, provocatively, qualitatively, reflexively, relatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, sensitively, substantively, successively. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: attentively. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-t-t-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: attentive, tentative, ventilate. | |
-3 letters: levitate, natively, venality. | |
-4 letters: elative, entitle, layette, lineate, naively, naivete, naivety, nattily, navette, tantivy, tattily, veinlet, ventail, vilayet, vittate. | |
-5 letters: alevin, alvine, attent, entail, entity, evenly, lateen, latent, latten, lattin, leaven, lenity, levant, levity, litany, litten, lyttae, native, neatly, nettle, nettly, talent, tattie, tattle, telnet, tenail, teniae, tentie, tetany, tineal, tittle, vainly, valine, vanity, veinal, velate, venial, vineal, vittae, vittle, yeelin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-t-t-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: inattentively. | |
+5 letters: interpretatively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 74 61 74 69 76 65 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -. - .- - .. ...- . .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n t a t i v e l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0074 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471808667867588717891 |
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