provisionary

1. 1.

   under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon

   “probationary employees”

   “a provisional government”

   “just a tentative schedule”

   Synonymsprobationaryprovisionaltentative

   Similarconditional

Questions about provisionary

What does provisionary mean?

provisionary means "under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon".

How many syllables are in provisionary?

provisionary has 6 syllables: pro-vi-si-o-na-ry. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for provisionary?

Close synonyms include probationary, provisional, tentative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is provisionary a common word?

provisionary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.