Word Meanings - APPROXIMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature.

Additional info about word: APPROXIMATION

1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor. 2. An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc. A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation. A value that is nearly but not exactly correct.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPROXIMATION)

• Approach
• Access
• avenue
• entrance
• adit
• vestibule
• arrival
• approximation
• advent
• Bearing
• admission
• appropinquation
• admittance
• mode
• path
• way
• advance
• similarity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPROXIMATION)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to APPROXIMATION)

• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ADVENTIST
  One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• APPROXIMATION
  1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• DECREASE
  1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• ACCESSORINESS
  The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• REACCESS
  A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill.
• ADVENTIVE
  Adventitious. Gray. (more info) 1. Accidental.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• MISBEAR
  To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.