What is another word for provisionally?

Pronunciation: [pɹəvˈɪʒənə͡li] (IPA)

Provisionally is a term used to suggest that something is subject to change or based on certain conditions or assumptions. Some alternative terms that can be used interchangeably with provisionally include tentatively, conditionally, temporarily, provisionary, or interim. These words all share the same notion of a situation or arrangement that is dependent on external factors and is not yet permanent or final. So, whether you're writing an academic paper or drafting a legal contract, using these synonyms can help you convey the sense of a partially established framework for future action or decision-making.

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Usage examples for Provisionally

Impatience is at the root of much unbelief and misconception and discontent; the inability to reconcile ourselves to the fact that in our present stage there is much we must hold provisionally, much we must be content to see through a glass darkly, much we can only know by picture and shadow.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
People believed completely in the young Czar's sincerity, awaited with great expectations the measures he would propose, and meanwhile indulged to the top of their bent in the practical liberties they were already provisionally allowed to enjoy, and gave themselves up to a restless fervour for liberty and reform.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
When, five years ago, after we had been here some time, he gave up his career and wanted to go back to Vienna, I made no objections whatever, and we established ourselves in his beloved native city, at first only provisionally.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin

Famous quotes with Provisionally

  • The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
    Ernst Mach
  • All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
    H. P. Lovecraft
  • With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. … As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.
    Robert Musil

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