approximating
Getting close to
Approximating is coming close to something without reaching it exactly.
You might be approximating the correct answer, approximating a recipe from memory, or approximating the style of a famous painter.
The word suggests effort toward accuracy while acknowledging imperfection: We're approximating the cost at fifty thousand dollars.
Coldly self-serving in strategy
- gaugingMeasuring or estimating
- measuringDetermining size or amount
- assessingEvaluating worth or significance
- evaluatingJudging quality or worth
estimating · inferring · predicting · forecasting · projecting · reckoning · deducing · quantifying
Uneven in surface
- inexactLacking full accuracy
- ballparkSports venue or estimate
- looseNot firmly secured
- fuzzySoft and unclear
vague · imprecise · uncertain · tentative · provisional · preliminary · coarse · crude
Copying another's behavior
- imitatingCopying another's manner
- emulatingCopying to equal
- simulatingArtificially replicating something
- replicatingMaking exact copies
mirroring · echoing · paralleling · matching · likening · comparing · analogizing · modeling
Getting progressively closer
- closingFinal stage of something
- convergingMoving toward sameness
- advancingMoving in forward direction
- trendingCurrently gaining widespread attention
tending · verging · edging · homing in · zeroing in · gravitating · inching · creeping
calculating
Coldly self-serving in strategy
- gaugingMeasuring or estimating
- measuringDetermining size or amount
- assessingEvaluating worth or significance
evaluating · estimating · inferring · predicting · forecasting · projecting · reckoning · deducing · quantifying · determining
rough
Uneven in surface
fuzzy · vague · imprecise · uncertain · tentative · provisional · preliminary · coarse · crude · sketchy
mimicking
Copying another's behavior
- imitatingCopying another's manner
- emulatingCopying to equal
- simulatingArtificially replicating something
replicating · mirroring · echoing · paralleling · matching · likening · comparing · analogizing · modeling · representing
nearing
Getting progressively closer
- closingFinal stage of something
- convergingMoving toward sameness
- advancingMoving in forward direction
trending · tending · verging · edging · homing in · zeroing in · gravitating · inching · creeping · progressing
- imprecisionimprecision, inexactness, inaccuracy, vagueness, fuzziness
- thinkingthinking, reasoning, thought, ponder, contemplate
- math operationsaddition, adding, subtraction, subtracting, multiplication
- simplificationsimplification, simplifying, simplify, condensing, simplified
- Simulationimitating, copying, mimicking, replicating, mirroring
approximatingpinpointing
Locating with precision
specifying · ascertaining · nailing down · fixing · determining