tentative
not final; done as a trial
Roots
- -ative: action-effect adjective ending
- tent / tempt: try, test, or attempt
Other words with the tent / tempt root
- attempt: to try to do something
Tentative means tried for now: useful enough to test but not final.
They made a tentative plan and agreed to revise it after the exam date was announced.
Tentative belongs with attempt: trying, testing, or putting something forward before it is settled. It is not the ten / tain hold family.