Synonyms for Provisional:

• adj.

  •acting (adjective)
  • alternate,
  • Delegated,
  • pro tempore,
  • provisional,
  • surrogate,
  • adjutant,
  • deputy,
  • assistant.
  •ad hoc (adjective)
  • special,
  • specified,
  • impromptu,
  • specific.
  •circumstantial (adjective)
  • Amplified,
  • indirect,
  • presumptive,
  • detailed,
  • concomitant,
  • coincidental,
  • fortuitous,
  • conjectural,
  • inconclusive,
  • inferential,
  • contingent,
  • environmental,
  • concurrent.
  •comparative (adjective)
  • contrastive,
  • by comparison,
  • in proportion,
  • connected,
  • matching,
  • metaphorical,
  • equivalent,
  • correlative,
  • not absolute,
  • like,
  • Vying,
  • relative,
  • related,
  • approaching,
  • parallel,
  • corresponding,
  • similar,
  • with reservation,
  • allusive,
  • comparable,
  • Rivaling,
  • analogous,
  • restricted,
  • not positive,
  • near.
  •conditional (adjective)
  • depending on,
  • dependent,
  • reliant,
  • subject to,
  • modified,
  • obscure,
  • saving,
  • with grain of salt,
  • with reservations,
  • Codicillary,
  • guarded,
  • restrictive,
  • granted on certain terms,
  • limited,
  • with strings attached,
  • incidental,
  • relying on,
  • iffy.
  •empirical/empiric (adjective)
  • observed,
  • pragmatic,
  • factual.
  •experimental (adjective)
  • on approval,
  • trial-and-error,
  • first stage,
  • unconcluded,
  • under probation,
  • developmental,
  • trial,
  • tester.
  •exploratory (adjective)
  • experimental.
  •interim (adjective)
  • improvised,
  • intervening.
  •introductory (adjective)
  • elementary,
  • starting,
  • anterior,
  • prior,
  • basic,
  • initial,
  • early,
  • rudimentary,
  • prefatory,
  • initiatory,
  • original,
  • incipient,
  • opening,
  • inaugural.
  •makeshift (adjective)
  • quick and dirty,
  • temp,
  • more make-do,
  • most band aid,
  • more bandaid,
  • more make do,
  • more throwaway,
  • most throwaway,
  • most bandaid,
  • most band-aid,
  • bandaid,
  • more makedo,
  • most make do,
  • more band-aid,
  • most makedo,
  • more band aid,
  • most make-do,
  • makedo.
  •provisional (adjective)
  • test,
  • transitional,
  • passing.
  •qualified (adjective)
  • Albeit,
  • reserved,
  • notwithstanding,
  • tempered,
  • exceptional,
  • mitigated,
  • Stipulated.
  •questionable (adjective)
  • un reliable,
  • un-reliable,
  • in determinate,
  • in-decisive,
  • more controvertible,
  • hard believe,
  • most paradoxical,
  • most unproven,
  • open doubt,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • un defined,
  • unconfirmed,
  • more unproven,
  • un-proven,
  • un-settled,
  • un settled,
  • un confirmed,
  • dubitable,
  • un-confirmed,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • in-definite,
  • hypo thetical,
  • in definite,
  • un-defined,
  • in decisive,
  • more paradoxical,
  • most controvertible,
  • un proven,
  • hypo-thetical.
  •rough-and-ready (adjective)
  • more wild and woolly,
  • more wild-and-woolly,
  • rough and ready,
  • most wild and woolly,
  • jerrybuilt,
  • un-refined,
  • wild and woolly,
  • un sophisticated,
  • un refined,
  • jerry built,
  • most wild-and-woolly.
  •saving (adjective)
  • more qualificative,
  • most qualificative.
  •short-term (adjective)
  • short term,
  • shortterm.
  •stopgap (adjective)
  • rough and tumble.
  •subject (adjective)
  • governed,
  • dis posed,
  • at ones feet,
  • enslaved,
  • ex posed,
  • at one feet,
  • sub ordinate,
  • more substract,
  • more satellite,
  • sub-altern,
  • more under,
  • at feet,
  • ex-posed,
  • more subjugated,
  • sub missive,
  • dis-posed,
  • most enslaved,
  • most satellite,
  • sub altern,
  • most substract,
  • more enslaved,
  • sub-best,
  • pro-nest,
  • subber,
  • more subaltern,
  • sub-ordinate,
  • most under,
  • subbest,
  • de pendent,
  • de-pendent,
  • most subjugated,
  • sub best,
  • most subaltern.
  •substitute (adjective)
  • vicarial,
  • proxier,
  • replacement,
  • Substitutive.
  •temporary (adjective)
  • for time being,
  • shortlived,
  • short lived,
  • un stable,
  • most unfixed,
  • over-night,
  • un fixed,
  • un-stablest,
  • un stablest,
  • un stabler,
  • more overnight,
  • suppliest,
  • un-fixed,
  • most shifting,
  • un-stabler,
  • most overnight,
  • un-stable,
  • more unfixed.
  •tentative (adjective)
  • un decided,
  • pro-visionary,
  • pro visionary,
  • subject change,
  • more provisionary,
  • most provisionary,
  • un-decided.
  •transient/transitory (adjective)
  • in substantial,
  • flasher,
  • more migrating,
  • most vacating,
  • trans-migratory,
  • most emigrating,
  • most migrating,
  • in-substantial,
  • most deciduous,
  • trans migratory,
  • flashest,
  • more deciduous,
  • more vacating,
  • more emigrating,
  • fly by night.
  •trial (adjective)
  • more exploratory,
  • more balloon,
  • most testing,
  • most balloon,
  • more testing,
  • most exploratory.

• n.

  •
  • floating,
  • variable,
  • brief,
  • inconstant.
  •
  • aggressive,
  • continue.
  •
  • substitute.
  •temporary (noun)
  • study at temporary.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • half-baked,
  • impracticable,
  • prepared,
  • disciplined,
  • Fiendish,
  • foolproof,
  • step by step,
  • programmatic,
  • get-rich-quick,
  • well thought out,
  • workable,
  • strategic,
  • provisory,
  • sequential,
  • double-barreled,
  • controlled,
  • prepackaged,
  • piecemeal,
  • preparatory,
  • tactical,
  • proposed.
  •
  • scientific,
  • tightknit,
  • scheduled,
  • uncertain.
  •
  • contingency.
  •
  • forward.

Paraphrases for Provisional:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    pre-trail, tent.ative, conservancy, initial, staging-area, momentary, provincial, prudential, probationary, conditional, improvised.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Measures, Minorities, estimates, meetings.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    staging.
  • Verb, past tense
    retained, Had.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Evolving.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    follows.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    temporary, Stop-gap, transitional, transitory, makeshift, temporal, tentative, transient, pretrial.
  • Proper noun, singular
    temporary, transitional, tentative, pretrial.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    temporary, tentative, facultative, locum.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    staging.

Antonyms for Provisional:

• adj.

  • circumstantial
    direct.
  • comparative
    unequal, unlike.
  • conditional
    unconditional, independent, unqualified, unrestricted, unlimited.
  • empirical/empiric
    impractical, hypothetical, theoretical, unobserved, speculative.
  • experimental
    tested, tried, proven.
  • interim
    continual.
  • introductory
    ending, concluding, finishing, last, final.
  • provisional
    definite, permanent, certain.
  • Other antonyms:
    eternal, standing, everlasting, settled, timeless, extended, enduring, lasting, immortal, fixed, long-range, long-term, set, unending, unconditioned, perpetual, endless, undying, dateless, deathless.