Usually means: Hesitantly, with uncertainty or provisionally.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word tentatively:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. tentatively: Merriam-Webster
  2. tentatively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tentatively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tentatively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tentatively, tentatively: Wordnik
  6. tentatively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tentatively: Wiktionary
  8. tentatively: Dictionary.com
  9. tentatively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. tentatively: Rhymezone
  11. tentatively: FreeDictionary.org
  12. tentatively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. tentatively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tentatively: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tentatively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tentatively)

▸ adverb:  Of, or having to do with being tentative.

Similar:
agnostically, phonotactically, thereof, ethnically, tectonophysically, budgetwise, advance, titled, provisionally, date, more...

Opposite:
definitely, definitely not, no doubt, no question, undoubtedly, surely, sure, positively, conclusively, unquestionably

Phrases:
ask tentatively, say tentatively, walk tentatively, asked tentatively, tentatively touch, more...

Colors:
    muted lavender,     light taupe,     faint blush,     misty blue,     delicate mauve, more...

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Similar:
agnostically, phonotactically, thereof, ethnically, tectonophysically, budgetwise, advance, titled, provisionally, date, more...

Opposite:
definitely, definitely not, no doubt, no question, undoubtedly, surely, sure, positively, conclusively, unquestionably

Phrases:
ask tentatively, say tentatively, walk tentatively, asked tentatively, tentatively touch, opposite of tentatively, tentatively step, tentatively agree, more...

Colors:
    muted lavender,     light taupe,     faint blush,     misty blue,     delicate mauve, more...



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