APPROXIMATELY Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

approximately

adverb

ə-ˈpräk-sə-mət-lē

Definition of approximately

as in roughly

close to but not exactly it takes approximately three hours to drive to Dallas

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Recent Examples of approximately The army said the gunmen arrived at an Israeli military position in the morning, triggering an exchange of fire lasting approximately 20 minutes, after which the gunmen were killed by Israeli troops. — Shlomo Mor, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 Nvidia intends to invest in the company, which is pursuing an approximately 2-gigawatt AI infrastructure expansion across Armenia, Kazakhstan and other market, as stated in the chipmaker's announcement. — Jenny Lee,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 These are two characters who are nearing retirement age with approximately zero anxiety. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 The net benefit to both gross margin and operating margin was approximately 310 basis points. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for approximately

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And the number of buyers -- roughly 929,000 -- represented the fewest on record dating back to 2013, while the tally of sellers jumped to its highest level since 2020.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
California officials have countered that the list is unverified and includes the names of lawful voters, despite recent charges announced by DOJ of roughly 28 individuals from the list accused of voting and immigration-related crimes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of roughly

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Baltzor and her husband Keith, had just finished riding a bunch of about 150 hundred head of their cattle down Highway 205 on horseback from another pasture.

— Anna King, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
Thanks to a demolition crew’s early Saturday morning implosion, an 18-story office tower that has hung over Clairmont Road in Chamblee for about five decades has been reduced to rubble.

— Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of about

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The venue this time around was an equally airy, heavenly, pale-toned 19th-century apartment in Paris’s ninth arrondissement, a bread roll’s throw away from the original Rose Bakery.

— Mark Holgate, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026
Unlike the initial push to spread money around to bet on would-be AI winners, there is not enough to go around at this stage.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026

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