Dictionary Entry
approximate
approximate is a 11-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling. Face value is 24 in Scrabble and 27 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 24 · Words With Friends 27 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
- 2adjective
Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.
- 3transitive verb
To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
- 4transitive verb
To come near to; to approach.
- 5intransitive verb
To draw; to approach.
- 6verb
judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
"I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
- 7verb
be close or similar
"Her results approximate my own"
- 8adjective
located close together
"with heads close together"
"approximate leaves grow together but are not united"
- 9adjective
very close in resemblance
"sketched in an approximate likeness"
"a near likeness"
Synonyms
- 10adjective
not quite exact or correct
"the approximate time was 10 o'clock"
"a rough guess"
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