All 5 Uses of
tentative
in
Light in August
- He sits up, slowly, tentatively.†
Chpt 18 *tentatively = in an unsure or hesitant manner
- She said, in a tone tentative, anxious: "You'll have just time to wash.†
Chpt 7
- "You durn yellowbellied wop," he said, in a tentative tone, jerking his head immediately, as if his voice had made more noise, sounded louder, than he had intended.†
Chpt 12
- It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds.†
Chpt 14
- Her voice is not tentative so much as rusty, as if it were being forced to try to say something outside the province of being said aloud, of being anything save felt, known.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(tentative as in: said it tentatively) done in a careful or unsure way (indicating a lack of confidence in exactly what will happen)
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(2)
(tentative as in: a tentative plan) subject to change (likely or possibly going to change)