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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not completed |
| Synonyms: | amateurish, bare, crude, cut short, dabbling, defective, deficient, dilettante, faulty, formless, found wanting, fragmentary, half-baked, half-done, immature, imperfect, in the making, in the rough, incomplete, lacking, natural, not done, plain, raw, rough, roughhewn, shapeless, sketchy, tentative, unaccomplished, unadorned, unassembled, uncompleted, unconcluded, under construction, undeveloped, undone, unexecuted, unfashioned, unfulfilled, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, wanting |
| Antonyms: | completed, finished, polished, refined, whole |
| Main Entry: | vacillating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changing |
| Synonyms: | changeable, fluctuating, hesitant, hesitating, inconstant, irresolute, oscillating, shifting, swaying, tentative, uncertain, undecided, unsure, vibrating, volatile, wavering |
| Antonyms: | resolute, unchanging |
| Main Entry: | timorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | afraid |
| Synonyms: | apprehensive, faint, fainthearted, fearful, hesitant, meek, shrinking, shuddering, shy, tentative, timid, tremulous, unassertive |
| Notes: | timid is used of a person's character or disposition; timorous is used of a person's action or behavior |
| Antonyms: | bold, brazen, forthcoming |
| Main Entry: | subject to change |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncertain |
| Synonyms: | conditional, not carved in stone, not firmed up, proposed, tentative |
| Main Entry: | up in the air |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very uncertain |
| Synonyms: | chancy, debatable, doubtful, iffy, pending, questionable, tentative, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, unfinished, unresolved, unsettled |
| Antonyms: | certain, finished, resolved, settled |
| Main Entry: | provisory |
| 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: | theoretic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, analytical, as a premise, assumed, codified, conjectural, contingent, formalistic, formularized, general, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, idealized, ideational, ideological, imaginative, impractical, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, intellectual, logical, metaphysical, notional, on paper, pedantic, philosophical, postulated, presumed, problematical, pure, quixotic, speculative, suppositional, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unproved, unsubstantiated, vague |
| Main Entry: | unperfected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough |
| Synonyms: | austere, crude, cursory, formless, hard, imperfect, preliminary, raw*, rough-and-ready, roughhewn, rudimentary, shapeless, sketchy, spartan, tentative, uncompleted, uncut, undressed, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unwrought |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vacillant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hesitant |
| Synonyms: | afraid, averse, backward, dawdling, delaying, diffident, disinclined, doubtful, doubting, faltering, half-hearted, halting, hanging back, hesitating, indecisive, irresolute, lacking confidence, lazy, loath, pendulous, reluctant, shilly-shally, shy*, skeptical, slow, tentative, timid, uneager, unpredictable, unsure, unwilling, vacillating, vacillatory, wavering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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