Tentative vs Transitory - What's the difference?
tentative | transitory |
Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
Uncertain; subject to future change.
Lasting only a short time; temporary.
* 1704 , , Section I - The Introduction,
* 1839 , , Chapter 38,
* 1922 , , Book Three, Chapter II: A Matter of Aesthetics,
(legal, of an action) That may be brought in any county; opposed to local .
As adjectives the difference between tentative and transitory
is that tentative is of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental while transitory is lasting only a short time; temporary.As a noun tentative
is a trial; an experiment.tentative
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(en adjective)Derived terms
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* attentive ----transitory
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(en adjective)- Secondly, that the materials being very transitory , have suffered much from inclemencies of air, especially in these north-west regions.
- Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
- For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them--wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls' cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all.
- (Blackstone)
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