Word Meanings - APPROXIMATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Approaching; approximate. -- Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ly, adv. -- Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to APPROXIMATIVE)

• APPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
• APPROACHLESS
  Impossible to be approached.
• APPROACHMENT
  Approach. Holland.
• APPROACHABILITY
  The quality of being approachable; approachableness.
• APPROACHING
  The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
• APPROACHER
  One who approaches.
• APPROXIMATE
  1. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling. 2. Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities , those which are nearly, but not, equal.
• APPROACH
  1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25. 2. To draw near,
• APPROACHABLE
  Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.
• APPROXIMATELY
  With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.
• REAPPROACH
  To approach again or anew.
• INAPPROACHABLE
  Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled. -- In`ap*proach"a*bly, adv.