tentative

Definitions

Not certain or fixed; provisional.

Done without confidence; hesitant.

Examples

We have reached a tentative agreement on the terms of the contract.

She took a few tentative steps out onto the thin ice.

The school board made a tentative plan to reopen the building next month.

Synonyms

hesitant uncertain provisional cautious experimental unconfirmed diffident

Antonyms

definite certain confident decisive final conclusive assured