provisional
provisional is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- according
- accordingly
- adventitious
- agreement
- are
- attitude
- attribution
- being
- bind
- case
- casus
- causation
- certain
- circumstance
- circumstantial
- come
- condition
- conditional
- conditionally
- conjunctive
- context
- contingency
- contingent
- contract
- covenant
- crisis
- critical
- dependence
- emergence
- emergency
- environment
- event
- exigency
- extrinsic
- footing
- given
- guarded
- happen
- how
- incidental
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is provisional.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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