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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conditional |
| Synonyms: | codicillary, contingent, depending on, fortuitous, granted on certain terms, guarded, iffy, incidental, inconclusive, limited, modified, not absolute, obscure, provisional, qualified, relative, reliant, relying on, restricted, restrictive, subject to, tentative, uncertain, with grain of salt, with reservations, with strings attached |
| Main Entry: | dependent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contingent, determined by |
| Synonyms: | accessory to, ancillary, appurtenant, conditional, controlled by, counting, depending, incidental to, liable to, provisory, reckoning, regulated by, relative, reliant, relying, subject to, subordinate, subservient, susceptible, sustained by, trusting, under control of |
| Antonyms: | free, independent |
| Main Entry: | hypothetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guessed, assumed |
| Synonyms: | academic, assumptive, casual, concocted, conditional, conjecturable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, debatable, disputable, doubtful, equivocal, imaginary, imagined, indefinite, indeterminate, postulated, presumptive, presupposed, pretending, problematic, provisory, putative, questionable, refutable, speculative, stochastic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suspect, theoretic, theoretical, uncertain, unconfirmed, vague |
| Antonyms: | calculated, confirmed, factual, measured, proved, proven, real, reliable, truthful |
| Main Entry: | provisional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contingent, tentative |
| Synonyms: | conditional, dependent, ephemeral, experimental, interim, limited, makeshift, passing, pro tem, provisionary, provisory, qualified, rough-and-ready, stopgap, temporary, test, transient, transitional |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, permanent |
| Main Entry: | temporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lasting only a short while |
| Synonyms: | Band-Aid, acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, for the time being, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, make-do, makeshift, momentary, mortal, overnight, passing, perishable, pro tem, pro tempore, provisional, provisory, shifting, short, short-lived, slapdash, stopgap, substitute, summary, supply, temp, transient, transitory, unfixed, unstable, volatile |
| Main Entry: | tentative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conditional, experimental |
| Synonyms: | acting, ad interim, conjectural, contingent, dependent, iffy, indefinite, makeshift, not final, not settled, on trial, open for consideration, probationary, provisional, provisionary, provisory, speculative, subject to change, temporary, test, trial, unconfirmed, undecided, unsettled |
| Antonyms: | certain, decisive, definite, final, sure |
| Main Entry: | pro tem |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
| Synonyms: | Band-Aid, acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, for the time being, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, make-do, makeshift, momentary, mortal, overnight, passing, perishable, pro tempore, provisional, provisory, shifting, short, short-lived, slapdash, stopgap, substitute, summary, supply, temp, transient, transitory, unfixed, unstable, volatile |
| Main Entry: | reliant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dependent |
| Synonyms: | accessory to, ancillary, appurtenant, conditional, conditioned, contingent, controlled by, counting, depending, incidental to, liable to, provisory, reckoning, regulated by, relative, relying, subject, subject to, subordinate, subservient, susceptible, sustained by, trusting, under control of |
| Main Entry: | short-range |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
| Synonyms: | Band-Aid, acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, for the time being, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, make-do, makeshift, momentary, mortal, overnight, passing, perishable, pro tem, pro tempore, provisional, provisory, shifting, short, short-lived, short-term, slapdash, stopgap, substitute, summary, supply, tactical, temp, transient, transitory, unfixed, unstable, volatile |
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