tentatively

English

Etymology

From tentative +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛntətɪvli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

tentatively (comparative more tentatively, superlative most tentatively)

1. Of, or having to do with being tentative.
   • 1922, Hamilton, “Coördination in the Starfish”, in Knight Dunlap, Robert M. Yerkes, editors, The Journal of Comparative Psychology‎^[1], volume II, Baltimore, page 90:

     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.

Translations

of, or having to do with being tentative

• Bulgarian: колебливо (bg) (koleblivo), неуверено (bg) (neuvereno)
• Finnish: alustavasti (fi)
• French: expérimentalement (fr)
• German: versuchsweise (de), vorläufig (de)
• Hungarian: próbaképpen, kísérletképpen, óvatosan (hu), puhatolózva
• Italian: tentativamente
• Latin: sensim
• Russian: экспериментально (ru) (eksperimentalʹno), пробно (probno), неуверенно (ru) (neuverenno)
• Swedish: preliminärt (sv)
• Ukrainian: нерішуче (nerišuče), невпевнено (nevpevneno); попередньо (poperednʹo), орієнтовно (orijentovno)

Anagrams

• attentively