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approximate

English

  1. 🔊 located close together
    “with heads close together”
  2. 🔊 very close in resemblance
    “sketched in an approximate likeness”
  3. 🔊 not quite exact or correct
    “the approximate time was 10 o'clock”
  4. 🔊 be close or similar
    “Her results approximate my own”
  5. 🔊 judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
    “I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 aproximado approximate
  2. 🔊 aproximar to approximate

Similar words

estimate gauge guess judge come close close together(p) near approximative rough accost advance advancing ape appear like approach approaching appropinquate approximating approximative arm-in-arm assimilate attracted to be around be like