provisionally.

On a temporary or conditional basis, pending confirmation, revision, or a final decision.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• provisionally accept
• provisionally classify
• provisionally agreed

On the page

The archive provisionally dated the letter to the early nineteenth century.

They provisionally accepted the proposal pending a safety review.

The cases were classified provisionally until further records became available.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic. Forms: Invariable adverb; no inflections. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.