provisional as an adjective: - 1
provisional
adjective
1 provisional
Under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon:
— A provisional government.
synonyms: probationary, provisionary, tentative.
Roget 673:
preparing
etc.
v.;
in preparation,
in course of preparation,
in agitation,
in embryo,
in hand,
in train;
afoot,
afloat;
on foot,
on the stocks,
on the anvil;
under consideration
etc.
(plan)
626;
brewing,
batching,
forthcoming,
brooding;
in store for,
in reserve.
precautionary,
provident;
preparative,
preparatory;
provisional,
inchoate,
under revision;
preliminary
etc.
(precedent)
62.
prepared
etc.
v.;
in readiness;
ready,
ready to one's band,
ready made,
ready cut and dried: made to one's hand,
handy,
on the table;
in gear;
in working order,
in working gear;
snug;
in practice.
ripe,
mature,
mellow;
pukka†;
practiced
etc.
(skilled)
698;
labored,
elaborate,
highly-wrought,
smelling of the lamp,
worked up.
in full feather,
in best bib and tucker;
in harness,
at harness;
in the saddle,
in arms,
in battle array,
in war paint;
up in arms;
armed at all points,
armed to the teeth,
armed cap a pie;
sword in hand;
booted and spurred.
in utrumque paratus [Lat.],
semper paratus [Lat.];
on the alert
etc.
(vigilant)
459;
at one's post.
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Roget 770:
conditional,
provisional,
guarded,
fenced,
hedged in.
Roget 475:
uncertain;
casual;
random
etc.
(aimless)
621;
changeable
etc.
149.
doubtful,
dubious;
indecisive;
unsettled,
undecided,
undetermined;
in suspense,
open to discussion;
controvertible;
in question
etc.
(inquiry)
461.
vague;
indeterminate,
indefinite;
ambiguous,
equivocal;
undefined,
undefinable;
confused
etc.
(indistinct)
447;
mystic,
oracular;
dazed.
perplexing
etc.
v.;
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical;
experimental
etc.
463.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable
(unknowable)
519.
fallible,
questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable,
disputable;
unreliable,
untrustworthy.
contingent,
contingent on,
dependent on;
subject to;
dependent on circumstances;
occasional;
provisional.
unauthentic,
unauthenticated,
unauthoritative;
unascertained,
unconfirmed;
undemonstrated;
untold,
uncounted.
in a state of uncertainty,
in a cloud,
in a maze;
bushed,
off the track;
ignorant,
etc.
491;
afraid to say;
out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift;
at sea,
at fault,
at a loss,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus;
puzzled
etc.
v.;
lost,
abroad,
d_esorient_e;
distracted,
distraught.
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Roget 463:
experimental,
empirical.
probative,
probatory†,
probationary,
provisional;
analytic,
docimastic†;
tentative;
unverified,
unproven,
speculative,
untested.
Roget 111:
transient,
transitory,
transitive;
passing,
evanescent,
fleeting,
cursory,
short-lived,
ephemeral;
flying
etc.
v.;
fugacious,
fugitive;
shifting,
slippery;
spasmodic;
instantaneous,
momentaneous†.
temporal,
temporary;
provisional,
provisory;
deciduous;
perishable,
mortal,
precarious,
unstable,
insecure;
impermanent.
brief,
quick,
brisk,
extemporaneous,
summary;
pressed for time
etc.
(haste)
684;
sudden,
momentary
etc.
(instantaneous)
113.
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Roget 8:
circumstantial;
given,
conditional,
provisional;
critical;
modal;
contingent,
incidental;
adventitious
etc.
(extrinsic)
6;
limitative†.
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Moby thesaurus: accidental, ad hoc, adventitious, aleatory, alternate, alternative, backup, band-aid, casual, circumstantial, conditional, contingent, counterfeit, cut-and-try, dangerous, dependent, desultory, dummy, empirical, equivalent, ersatz, experimental, fake, fixed, forehanded, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, given, hazardous, heuristic, hit-or-miss, imitation, improvisational, improvised, incidental, inessential, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, interim, jury-rigged, makeshift, makeshifty, mock, nonessential, occasional, perilous, phony, pilot, pinch, precarious, precautional, precautionary, precautious, preparative, preparatory, prerequisite, pro tem, probationary, probative, probatory, propaedeutic, provident, proving, provisory, proxy, qualified, reserve, risky, rough-and-ready, rough-and-tumble, secondary, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery, spare, specificative, specified, stated, stipulated, stipulatory, stopgap, substitute, temporary, tentative, test, testing, ticklish, token, transitional, treacherous, trial, trial-and-error, trying, undependable, unessential, unfaithworthy, unreliable, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, utility, verificatory, vicarious ... show more.
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