pretentative
English
Etymology
pre- + tentative: compare Latin praetentare to try beforehand.
Adjective
pretentative (not comparable)
- Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pretentative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- preattentive