provisory

[ pruh-vahy-zuh-ree ]

adjective

1. containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
2. provisional ( defs 1, 2 ).

provisory

/ prəˈvaɪzərɪ /

adjective

1. containing a proviso; conditional
2. another word for provisional
3. making provision

Derived Forms

• proˈvisorily, adverb

Other Words From

• pro·viso·ri·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of provisory¹

1605–15; < Medieval Latin prōvīsōrius, equivalent to Latin prōvid-, stem of prōvidēre to provide + -tōrius -tory ¹, with dt > s

Example Sentences

My feelings of safety and belonging are still highly provisory.

From The Guardian

Dickinson’s dashes are ubiquitous in all but the earliest editions of her poems, but fewer editions reproduce her plus signs, which mark an unfinished or provisory line, later to be filled in.

From The New Yorker

In the meantime Louis XVI. wrote to the Pope beseeching him to approve, at least provisorily, of the first five articles to which he was in a manner forced to give his sanction.

From Project Gutenberg

Zinc plates are also employed as provisory supports instead of glass, opal or porcelain plates.

From Project Gutenberg

If yet in time—ay, such provisory parenthesis was in my mind at the moment.

From Project Gutenberg