Synonyms for approximately
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1. approximatelyadverb

   Synonyms:
   near, almost, roughly, around, loosely, nearly, about

   Antonyms:
   definitely, precisely, accurately, exactly

2. approximatelyadverb

   Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.

   Synonyms:
   almost, about, around, loosely, roughly, near, nearly

   Antonyms:
   precisely, accurately, exactly, definitely

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.2 / 5 votes

1. approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or soadverb

   (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

   "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"

   Synonyms:
   well-nigh, rough, virtually, somewhat, slightly, or so, roughly, just about, some, nigh, most, about, nearly, more or less, almost, near, around, close to, round

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1. about

   used to show that something is almost, but not completely, accurate or exact; roughly.

   a journey of approximately two hours.

   Submitted by JP03 on April 29, 2015  

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1. approximatelyadjective

   Synonyms:
   near, nearly, about, not far from

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1. List of paraphrases for "approximately":

   about, roughly, around, nearly, some, almost, environ, approx, ~, approximate, near, estimated, close, approximatly

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1. Ian Kelleher:

   Last year we sold approximately $144 million of cars at Monterey, which is the single largest total for any collector car auction to date. This year we expect to eclipse that.

2. Safaa Elias Jajo:

   There are approximately 500 of us.

3. Leslie Scott:

   We brought in a new aircraft and the flight has since departed approximately 4.5 hours late, we apologize to our customers for the inconvenience.

4. Exxon Mobil Corp:

   Once full field production levels are safely reached, the project will represent approximately 20 percent of Indonesia's 2016 annual oil production target.

5. Professor Richard Sanders:

   If we can get the density of this instrument just right, it will sit neither sinking nor floating. Now that's easy to say but it's actually a considerable challenge to do... They weigh about 100 kilograms and we need to ballast them to approximately better than one gram. So that's a considerable challenge. The way that we do that is by putting them in tanks of water... and adding weights until they're just sinking; at which point we know they have the same density as the water that they're sitting in.