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Antonyms for provisional

Grammar : Adj
Spell : pruh-vizh-uh-nl
Phonetic Transcription : prəˈvɪʒ ə nl

Definition of provisional

Origin :
  • "as a temporary arrangement for the present," c.1600, from provision (n.) + -al (1), or else from Middle French provisionnal (15c.), from Old French provision. The notion is of something that will "provide for present needs." Related: Provisionally.
  • adj contingent, tentative
Example sentences :
  • Moreover, we all knew that the present was only a provisional arrangement.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • The retreat was effected; but it was only a provisional retreat.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) » by Various
  • Not one of the gentlemen of the Provisional Commission put in an appearance.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • When she hears that you're Provisional Governor of this planet, she'll even believe it.
  • Extract from : « Divinity » by William Morrison
  • The reading of the name as Ramman (or Rammanu) is provisional.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • It had been a provisional arrangement, but he had preferred not to change it.
  • Extract from : « The Nabob » by Alphonse Daudet
  • On the 30th of November, of that year, the provisional articles of peace were signed.
  • Extract from : « Reminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, Commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Army, during the War of the Revolution » by Charles Hersey
  • That the following be a provisional Committee in the interim, with power to add to their number.
  • Extract from : « An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825) » by William Hillary
  • From the barricades the provisional government was proclaimed.
  • Extract from : « A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year » by Edwin Emerson
  • It is accompanied by a provisional and ever-revocable belief.
  • Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot

Synonyms for provisional

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