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See definition of proximately on Dictionary.com
  • as inapproximately
  • as inshortly

synonyms for proximately

  • almost
  • generally
  • relatively
  • roughly
  • about
  • around
  • ballpark figure
  • bordering on
  • circa
  • close to
  • closely
  • comparatively
  • in the ballpark
  • in the neighborhood of
  • in the region of
  • in the vicinity of
  • just about
  • loosely
  • more or less
  • most
  • much
  • not far from
  • not quite
  • upwards of
  • very close

antonyms for proximately

MOST RELEVANT
  • accurately
  • clearly
  • definitely
  • exactly
  • precisely
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How to use proximately in a sentence

The motion at any subsequent instant is proximately caused by the motion which took place at the instant preceding.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILL
Proximately to complete our investigations—already far advanced—into the origin of the Universe.
THE CRACK OF DOOMROBERT CROMIE
And is not this change proximately ascribable to this habitual self-dependence?
THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S CLASSICS, RESTRICTED TO PROSE, VOL. VI (OF X)--GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IVVARIOUS
In none of these cases can we be even proximately certain of the length of the animal.
DELINEATIONS OF THE OX TRIBEGEORGE VASEY
It may be illustrated, however, in various ways, so as to obtain a conclusion proximately accurate.
COTTON IS KING AND THE PRO-SLAVERY ARGUMENTSVARIOUS
It was proximately Austrian recklessness and indirectly, but just as strongly, German ambition.
BEFORE THE WARVISCOUNT RICHARD BURTON HALDANE
The same remark is proximately true of the literary life of the First Empire.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I (VOLUMES, 1 AND 2)JOHN HOLLAND ROSE
The value of the new plan rests proximately in the belief of the banker, manifested by his granting of credit.
THE VALUE OF MONEYBENJAMIN M. ANDERSON, JR.
Portuguese and Spanish literature and drama alike derive proximately from the Italian Renaissance.
THE EVOLUTION OF STATESJ. M. ROBERTSON
In the other, they are discordant, and are forced to reach their proximately proper adjustment through antagonism and struggle.
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY , VOL. 6, NO. 1, JULY, 1864VARIOUS
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