Definition for Approximate:

• To come close to; to cause to approach.

Synonyms for Approximate:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • approximative,
  • near,
  • rough.
  •almost accurate, exact (adjective)
  • almost,
  • close,
  • comparative,
  • near,
  • proximate,
  • relative,
  • rough.
  •calculational (adjective)
  • algebraic,
  • algorithmic,
  • arithmetic,
  • computational,
  • geometric,
  • judgmental,
  • mathematical,
  • methodical,
  • numerical,
  • proportional,
  • rational,
  • statistical,
  • suppositional,
  • Systematical,
  • calculational,
  • valuational.
  •equal (adjective)
  • rival.
  •imprecise (adjective)
  • imprecise,
  • inaccurate,
  • incorrect,
  • inexact.
  •inexact (adjective)
  • estimated,
  • imperfect,
  • imprecise,
  • loose,
  • uncertain,
  • unscientific,
  • Guessed,
  • Surmised,
  • Unprecise.
  •near (adjective)
  • adjacent,
  • bordering,
  • close together,
  • contiguous,
  • nearby,
  • neighboring.
  •representative (adjective)
  • analogous,
  • cartoon,
  • copy,
  • facsimile,
  • graphic,
  • illustrative,
  • imitation,
  • metaphorical,
  • miniature,
  • model,
  • outline,
  • pastiche,
  • portrayed,
  • replica,
  • representative,
  • Aping,
  • Rendered.
  •rough (adjective)
  • approaching,
  • comparative,
  • estimated,
  • imperfect,
  • proximate,
  • relative,
  • uncertain,
  • unscientific,
  • Guessed,
  • Surmised,
  • Unprecise,
  • not quite.
  •similar (adjective)
  • alike,
  • analogous,
  • comparable,
  • like,
  • matching,
  • Resembling,
  • verging on.

• n.

  •
  • correspond,
  • match,
  • parallel.
  •
  • approach,
  • border on,
  • challenge,
  • rival,
  • verge on.
  •
  • approximately,
  • broadly,
  • place,
  • put,
  • questionable,
  • roughly,
  • set,
  • wrong.
  •
  • come,
  • reach,
  • touch.
  •approximate (noun)
  • approximative,
  • ballpark,
  • close,
  • close together,
  • come close,
  • estimate,
  • gauge,
  • guess,
  • inexact,
  • judge,
  • near,
  • rough.

• v.

  •calculate (verb)
  • account,
  • add,
  • appraise,
  • assess,
  • calculate,
  • compute,
  • conclude,
  • consider,
  • count,
  • deduce,
  • determine,
  • divide,
  • enumerate,
  • estimate,
  • evaluate,
  • figure,
  • gauge,
  • guess,
  • infer,
  • judge,
  • measure,
  • multiply,
  • plan,
  • plot,
  • presume,
  • program,
  • quantify,
  • quantize,
  • rank,
  • rate,
  • rationalize,
  • reckon,
  • schedule,
  • scheme,
  • score,
  • study,
  • sum,
  • suppose,
  • surmise,
  • systematize,
  • tally,
  • think,
  • total,
  • triangulate,
  • value,
  • weigh.
  •come close (verb)
  • approach,
  • border on,
  • come near,
  • estimate,
  • reach,
  • resemble,
  • touch,
  • verge on.
  •represent (verb)
  • ape,
  • cast,
  • depict,
  • duplicate,
  • illustrate,
  • imitate,
  • photograph,
  • portray,
  • render,
  • replicate,
  • represent,
  • silhouette,
  • simulate.
  •resemble (verb)
  • look like,
  • mimic,
  • mirror,
  • resemble.
  •stative (verb)
  • come close.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • approximately,
  • arguable,
  • border on,
  • equate,
  • erroneous,
  • faulty,
  • homogenize,
  • inaccuracy,
  • match,
  • nominally,
  • questionable,
  • roughly,
  • uninformed,
  • wrongly,
  • match-up,
  • CIRCA.
  •
  • alike,
  • anywhere,
  • bear,
  • correspond,
  • parallel,
  • sweeping.
  •
  • broadly,
  • false,
  • generalized,
  • wrong,
  • Anything.
  •
  • border,
  • put,
  • top,
  • touch,
  • verge,
  • wide.
  •
  • approach,
  • fit,
  • liberal.
  •
  • set.
  •amount
  • sum,
  • tally.
  •approach
  • close in,
  • come close,
  • draw near,
  • correspond to,
  • compare with,
  • be like,
  • verge upon.
  •approximate
  • round,
  • rude.
  •comparable
  • comparative.
  •resemble
  • come near,
  • smack of,
  • bring to mind,
  • sound like,
  • appear like,
  • be similar to,
  • come close to,
  • remind one of,
  • bear resemblance to,
  • is similar to,
  • seem like,
  • sounds like.
  •Other relevant words:
  • about,
  • accost,
  • adjacent,
  • adjoin,
  • adjudicate,
  • advance,
  • advancing,
  • alike,
  • all but,
  • almost,
  • amount,
  • anywhere,
  • approach,
  • approaching,
  • approximately,
  • approximation,
  • approximative,
  • arbitrary,
  • arguable,
  • around,
  • ascertain,
  • assimilate,
  • assume,
  • ballpark,
  • bear,
  • bear down on,
  • bear down upon,
  • bear up,
  • believe,
  • bill,
  • boisterous,
  • border,
  • border on,
  • bordering,
  • broad,
  • broadly,
  • burn,
  • burning,
  • calculation,
  • call,
  • call up,
  • challenge,
  • cheeseparing,
  • chiefly,
  • circularly,
  • clan,
  • clasp,
  • clearance,
  • cling to,
  • close,
  • close in,
  • close together,
  • closely,
  • coarsely,
  • come,
  • come close,
  • come forward,
  • come near,
  • come up,
  • coming,
  • commonly,
  • comparable,
  • comparative,
  • compare,
  • computation,
  • computing,
  • confront,
  • contiguous,
  • correspond,
  • count on,
  • counterfeit,
  • crude,
  • cursory,
  • customarily,
  • dear,
  • declare,
  • doubtless,
  • draw near,
  • drift,
  • encounter,
  • enumeration,
  • equate,
  • erroneous,
  • essential,
  • estimated,
  • estimation,
  • evoke,
  • false,
  • faulty,
  • favor,
  • favour,
  • feign,
  • fierce,
  • fit,
  • foggy,
  • folk,
  • folks,
  • follow,
  • forecast,
  • foretell,
  • forthcoming,
  • frequently,
  • gender,
  • general,
  • generalized,
  • generally,
  • good,
  • grating,
  • gravelly,
  • guesstimate,
  • guestimate,
  • hand in hand,
  • handful,
  • harsh,
  • hasty,
  • hazy,
  • hold,
  • homogenize,
  • homologous,
  • hot,
  • house,
  • huddle,
  • hug,
  • ill-defined,
  • imagine,
  • immediate,
  • imminent,
  • imperfect,
  • in all probability,
  • inaccuracy,
  • indefinite,
  • indeterminate,
  • intimate,
  • intimately,
  • jolting,
  • just about,
  • kin,
  • kinsfolk,
  • label,
  • lax,
  • liberal,
  • like,
  • loose,
  • main,
  • mainly,
  • match,
  • matching,
  • maybe,
  • mechanical,
  • misgauge,
  • mock,
  • most,
  • mostly,
  • narrowly,
  • near,
  • nearby,
  • nearly,
  • negligent,
  • neighboring,
  • nigh,
  • nominally,
  • normally,
  • oncoming,
  • opine,
  • ordinarily,
  • out of true,
  • overall,
  • overestimate,
  • parallel,
  • pebbly,
  • penny-pinching,
  • perhaps,
  • place,
  • ponder,
  • practical,
  • pretend,
  • primarily,
  • principally,
  • probably,
  • pronounce,
  • proximal,
  • proximate,
  • pseudo,
  • pugnacious,
  • pun,
  • pursue,
  • put,
  • quasi,
  • questionable,
  • quick,
  • rasping,
  • raspy,
  • reach,
  • reckoning,
  • reflect,
  • regard,
  • regularly,
  • relative,
  • rhyme,
  • rival,
  • rocky,
  • rough,
  • roughly,
  • round,
  • rounded,
  • roundly,
  • rude,
  • seem,
  • set,
  • side by side,
  • sidle,
  • similar,
  • sketchy,
  • smooth,
  • sort of,
  • span,
  • stack up,
  • stock,
  • suggest,
  • suspect,
  • sweeping,
  • take after,
  • thereabouts,
  • tightly,
  • top,
  • touch,
  • try,
  • uncertain,
  • uncut,
  • underestimate,
  • uninformed,
  • unscientific,
  • unspecific,
  • upcoming,
  • usually,
  • vague,
  • venture,
  • verge,
  • vicinal,
  • vicinity,
  • virtual,
  • warm,
  • whole,
  • wide,
  • work out,
  • wrong,
  • wrongly,
  • Anything,
  • Appropinquate,
  • Approximating,
  • Attracted,
  • Family,
  • Guessed,
  • Nearing,
  • Resembling,
  • Simulating,
  • Toward,
  • match-up,
  • Connaturalize,
  • Surmised,
  • advances,
  • representing,
  • CIRCA,
  • relatable,
  • correspond to,
  • hang about,
  • make up to,
  • smack of,
  • verge on,
  • partake of,
  • savor of,
  • Unprecise,
  • much at one,
  • not quite,
  • in the ballpark,
  • to come,
  • much the same,
  • bring to mind,
  • compare with,
  • sound like,
  • attracted to,
  • call to mind,
  • appear like,
  • be like,
  • be similar to,
  • come close to,
  • remind one of,
  • verging on,
  • undetailed,
  • be similar,
  • be near,
  • bear resemblance to,
  • bring near,
  • unfactual,
  • close with,
  • come on,
  • is similar to,
  • keep under surveillance,
  • non-specific,
  • seem like,
  • sounds like,
  • stack up with,
  • trench on,
  • verge upon,
  • get near,
  • be redolent of,
  • to,
  • something like,
  • arm-in-arm,
  • get warm.

Antonyms for Approximate:

• adj.

  • almost accurate, exact
    accurate, away, clear, definite, dissimilar, exact, far, precise, same.
  • similar
    different.
  • Other antonyms:
    absolute, accurate, certain, clear-cut, complete, confirmed, correct, corroborated, dead, dead-on, decisive, definable, defined, definite, determined, distant, downright, errorless, established, exact, factual, genuine, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, out-and-out, outright, perfect, positive, precise, pure, real, remote, right, sound, substantiated, supported, sure, true, undeniable, unqualified, unquestionable, valid, validated, veracious.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    open, open up.
  • n. t.
    absolute, accurate, away, calculate, certain, clear, clear-cut, complete, confirmed, correct, corroborated, dead, dead-on, decisive, definable, defined, definite, depart, determined, different, dissimilar, downright, errorless, established, exact, exemplary, factual, far, illustrative, incontestable, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, out-and-out, outright, perfect, positive, precise, pure, real, right, same, sound, specific, substantiated, supported, sure, undeniable, unqualified, unquestionable, valid, validated, veracious, ultraprecise, be nothing like.

• v.

  • come close
    depart, leave.