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Noncommittal vs Tentative - What's the difference?

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Noncommittal is a synonym of tentative.


As adjectives the difference between noncommittal and tentative

is that noncommittal is tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion while tentative is of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.

As a noun tentative is

a trial; an experiment.

noncommittal

English

Alternative forms

* non-commital * noncommital * non-committal

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.
    • The Major's face was noncommittal .
    The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.
  • *1818 , S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany , v. 10, p. 234:
  • *:[He] is candid, open-hearted, and hardly non-commmittal enough for his own interest at times.

    • Derived terms

    *noncommittally

    References

    tentative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trial; an experiment.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
  • Uncertain; subject to future change.

    • Derived terms

    * tentativeness

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * attentive ----