approximately
More or less
Approximately means close to but not exactly: The trip takes approximately three hours.
It signals that a number or quantity is an estimate rather than a precise measurement.
The word appears frequently in formal or technical contexts where exactness matters but isn't achievable: Approximately 40% of respondents agreed.
In approximate terms
- aboutConcerning or approximately
- aroundIn the vicinity
- circaApproximately, for dates
- nearlyAlmost but incomplete
almost · loosely · inexactly · more or less · give or take · somewhere around · in the ballpark · round numbers
Sports venue or estimate
- guesstimateRough, intuitive calculation
- roughlyIn approximate terms
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- projectionSomething that extends outward
reckoning · quantification · estimation · assessment · conjecture · measurement · extrapolation · forecast
roughly
In approximate terms
nearly · almost · loosely · inexactly · more or less · give or take · somewhere around · in the ballpark · round numbers · plus or minus
ballpark
Sports venue or estimate
- guesstimateRough, intuitive calculation
- roughlyIn approximate terms
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
projection · reckoning · quantification · estimation · assessment · conjecture · measurement · extrapolation · forecast · prediction
- comparisonscomparison, compare, comparative, analogy, metaphor
- approximationsabout, around, roughly, almost, nearly
- adverbsquickly, slowly, very, really, now
- long wordssupercalifragilisticexpialidocious, antidisestablishmentarianism, incomprehensibilities, counterrevolutionary, electroencephalograph
- vague wordssomething, someone, somewhere, sometime, somehow
- math symbolsplus, minus, equals, divide, multiply
approximatelyexactly
With total accuracy
precisely · sharp · on the dot · on the nose · to the letter