All 7 Uses

tentative
in
The Sea of Tranquility
(Edited)

I take a tentative step closer, looking around, remembering details of a place I know I have never been.
p. 51.8

tentative = careful or unsure
One of us is going to have to blink first, so I take a tentative step back as if I'm trying to evade a predator, hoping he won't notice that I'm moving until I'm already gone.
p. 54.3
I wish she would stop saying my name like that. Soft and tentative, like she's licking broken glass.
p. 155.5
His voice is tentative. He's eyeing me like at any moment I might completely lose my mind.
p. 289.7
Even if I wasn't watching the class, I would have been able to hear the collective turning of every head in the room when Josh's hand went up. Even Ms. McAllister looks like she doesn't quite know what to make of it.
"Josh?" she says tentatively.
p. 377.4

tentatively = in an unsure or hesitant manner
And then he kisses me. Tentatively at first, waiting for something, but there isn't any need. I would kiss him forever.
p. 424.9 *

tentatively = in an unsure way
He has that tentative half smile, like he's almost embarrassed by what he's saying.
p. 426.3

tentative = careful or unsure

Definitions:

(1) (tentative as in: said it tentatively)
done in a careful or unsure way (indicating a lack of confidence in exactly what will happen)
(2) (tentative as in: a tentative plan)
subject to change (likely or possibly going to change)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)