Tentative is valid Scrabble Word

Is tentative a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for TENTATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

something done as an experiment or trial
An essay; a trial; an experiment.
investigative attempt

ADJECTIVE:

cautious
not certain or fixed; provisional
done without confidence; hesitant
provisional or experimental
Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
unsettled in mind or opinion

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

not fully worked out or developed

Words related to TENTATIVE

tentatively17 tentativeness16 tentativenesses18 tentatives13

Words that contain TENTATIVE

tentatives13 tentatively17 sustentative15 tentativeness16 tentativenesses18

How to use TENTATIVE in a sentence

He made tentative motions, pranced a little like a dog about to take to water, pretended to bark, and ran to and fro on the carpet.
Then she looked round with a tentative smile that was wholly captivating.
A cold silence was abroad, which a crow now and then vainly tried to disturb with a note of tentative enterprise, forced, premature.
A structural peculiarity, to be especially noted as one of the tentative efforts of Romanesque art, is the use of half-arches for the vaulting of the two narrow aisles.
He had lived a sort of animal life of food and sleep, and later on of small tentative excursions around the room on legs that shook when he walked.
A tentative advance into New Jersey, and the consequent manoeuvres of Washington, satisfied him that the enterprise by this route was too hazardous.
He held his head a trifle higher, was his own man again, and he began to make tentative inquiries as to whether he could be useful in the national emergency or not.
The Concho had always claimed the right to run their cattle on the Blue Mesa with the Blue Range as a tentative line of demarcation.
They had been heavily reinforced and our tentative offensive had been replaced by a stern and anxious defensive.
It cannot be more than a series of tentative beginnings, and if there be no continuation, the scheme of things is a gigantic blunder.

It is not the existence of God or the idea of good which he approaches in a tentative or hesitating manner, but the investigations of physiology.
Other investigations which followed gave a still more tentative character to what I wrote or got written.
In this volume again, I express my desire to build up a system of theology out of the Anglican divines, and imply that my dissertation was a tentative inquiry.
The time soon came when these tentative flights were to be superseded by more serious efforts.
The tentative steps towards world order, especially since World War II, give hopeful signs.
Its attempts to use its wings have been timid and tentative.
A tentative question or two put to Kayak Bill revealed this, though it availed her nothing.
But if the occasion was in a measure accidental, there was nothing haphazard or tentative in the line chosen to encounter the danger.
To her tentative and breathless remarks he made brief answer, and only once in all that time did he volunteer a remark.
I started with the purely tentative hypothesis that the person who signed the will was not Jeffrey Blackmore.
II The pastoral tradition, such as it was, that thus formed itself on the English stage remained to the end hesitating, tentative, and undefined.
They have a perception of the Beautiful, not ready-made and final, but tentative and in process of growth.
Tentative heroes may suit modern urgency, LUBBOCK may win where a Hercules fails.
These personifications were tentative and vague, and the consequent mythology was a system of rhetoric rather than of theology.
Action then ceases to be merely tentative and spontaneous, and becomes art.
As at Kimberley, so also at Mafeking, the Schreiner sect set itself placidly to thwart the gentle and tentative early efforts of the British Government to deal with the situation.
The buzz of talk revived, at first a word or two here and there, tentative after the check, then more confidently.
Great things may be hoped from the new science of eugenics, when it has passed out of its tentative and experimental stage.
The earliest examples of fiction in the United States were tentative and lacking in originality.

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