approximately
Syllables: ap·prox·i·mate·lyUK/əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət.li//əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/
approximately adverb: imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.
Adverb
approximately (not comparable)
- Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.
- approximately 60 beats per minute
- In every box of matches there are approximately 40 matchsticks.
- Synonyms:
- around, about, near, nearly, -ish, all but, almost, approaching, by and large, circa
- Antonyms:
- accurately, definitely, exactly, precisely
approximately meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
approximately in Hindi
- imprecise but close to in quantity or amount
- लगभग lagbhag, तक़रीबन taqrīban
approximately in Tamil
- imprecise but close to in quantity or amount
- கிட்டத்தட்ட kiṭṭattaṭṭa, தோராயமாக tōrāyamāka
approximately in Urdu
- imprecise but close to in quantity or amount
- لَگ بَھگ lag bhag, تَقْرِیباً taqrīban
approximately in Bengali
- imprecise but close to in quantity or amount
- প্রায় praẏ
More languagesFewer languages
- approximately in Telugu
- సుమారుగా sumārugā
- approximately in Malayalam
- ഏകദേശം ēkadēśaṁ
- approximately in Kannada
- ಸುಮಾರು sumāru
- approximately in Gujarati
- લગભગ lagbhag, સરાસરી sarāsrī
- approximately in Pashto
- تقريباً taqríban, شاوخوا šāwxwā
- approximately in Arabic
- حَوَالَيْ ḥawālay, تَقْرِيبًا taqrīban
- approximately in Indonesian
- kira-kira, kurang lebih
- approximately in Thai
- ประมาณ bprà-maan
- approximately in Vietnamese
- khoảng, chừng
- approximately in Myanmar
- ခန့်မှန်းခြေ hkan.hman:hkre, ခန့် hkan.
Examples of approximately in a sentence
- Per 100 g of chocolate there is approximately 11.6 g of saturated fat.
- Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
Synonyms of approximately
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Antonyms
Forms of approximately
| alternative form | approx. |
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Origin of approximately
From approximate + -ly.
Questions about approximately
- What does approximately mean?
- Approximately means imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.
- What is approximately in Hindi?
- Approximately in Hindi is लगभग (lagbhag), तक़रीबन (taqrīban). See Approximately meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use approximately in a sentence?
- Per 100 g of chocolate there is approximately 11.6 g of saturated fat.
- What part of speech is approximately?
- Approximately is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce approximately?
- Approximately is pronounced /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/ (US).
Words near approximately in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: approximately (page history and authors); ಸುಮಾರು (Kannada) (page history and authors); લગભગ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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