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tentatively en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈtɛntətɪvli/

Etymology

Etymology tree English tentative Middle English -ly English -ly English tentatively From tentative + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a tentative manner.
   • This last activity was studied in the second paper of this series and it was suggested tentatively that the peculiarly adaptive discoördination in this and other reactions might be due to the pull of part upon part, acting through the substrate. 1922, Hamilton, “Coördination in the Starfish”, in Knight Dunlap, Robert M. Yerkes, editors, The Journal of Comparative Psychology, volume II, Baltimore, page 90:

Forms

Translations (20)

hu puhatolózva (of, or having to do with being tentative) · hu próbaképpen (of, or having to do with being tentative) · uk попередньо (of, or having to do with being tentative) · sv preliminärt (of, or having to do with being tentative) · uk нерішуче (of, or having to do with being tentative) · fi alustavasti (of, or having to do with being tentative) · ru экспериментально (of, or having to do with being tentative) · hu óvatosan (of, or having to do with being tentative) · hu kísérletképpen (of, or having to do with being tentative) · de versuchsweise (of, or having to do with being tentative) · uk невпевнено (of, or having to do with being tentative) · ru пробно (of, or having to do with being tentative) · it tentativamente (of, or having to do with being tentative) · fr expérimentalement (of, or having to do with being tentative) · de vorläufig (of, or having to do with being tentative) · ru неуверенно (of, or having to do with being tentative) · uk орієнтовно (of, or having to do with being tentative) · la sensim (of, or having to do with being tentative) · bg неуверено (of, or having to do with being tentative) · bg колебливо (of, or having to do with being tentative)