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What is the adjective for approximate?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb approximate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

approximate
  1. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
  2. Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. loose, rough, estimated, imprecise, inexact, close, general, near, ballpark, vague, hazy, amorphous, approximative, broad, coarse-grained, inaccurate, indefinite, sketchy, squishy, fuzzy, wooly, woolly, guessed, imperfect, surmised, uncertain, unprecise, unscientific, almost accurate, almost exact, ill-defined, non-specific, unspecific, sweeping, unclear, unfocused, inexplicit, overall, equivocal, basic, ambiguous, undetailed, generic, indiscriminate, indeterminate, confused, indistinct, proximate, foggy, nonspecific … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “When is the approximate best time to get an accurate body fat percentage reading?”
      “It requires only an approximate model of the target object and then identifies the object that most closely approximates the model.”
      “The vessel was speeding with approximate ease before the tempest.”
approximative
  1. Of, relating to, or being an estimate or approximation.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. approximate, inexact, loose, imprecise, ballpark, squishy, inaccurate, rough, general, vague, estimated, broad, coarse-grained, hazy, sketchy, uncertain, near, close, indefinite, inexplicit, fuzzy, indistinct, woolly, wooly, unprecise, ill-defined, non-specific, almost accurate, almost exact, proximate, foggy, amorphous, imperfect, guessed, unscientific, surmised, unmeticulous, unrigorous, liberal, nearly perfect, mostly correct, almost correct, mostly accurate, random, rambling, changeable, fluid, obscure, flexible, open … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The approximative production sometimes lets this album down slightly, yet it also gives it an interesting unfinished feel and fragility.”
      “All tracks are named from derived Finnish words, but the pair offers for most an approximative English translation, as to entice the listener to enter their universe.”
      “It can be used as an approximative measure of support for one or the other model and, therefore, allows estimating the evidence in favor of one or the other hypothesis.”
approximable
  1. (mathematics) Able to be approximated
approximated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of approximate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. made, estimated, derived, gaged, inferred, reckoned, suspected, assessed, believed, calculated, concluded, considered, counted, determined, forecast, forecasted, gathered, gauged, judged, regarded, appraised, deduced, evaluated, guessed, put, supposed, surmised, thought, calculated roughly, called, conjectured, counted up, figured, guesstimated, numbered, predicted, doped out, put a figure on, worked out, valued, placed, cast, putten, computed, totalled, totaled, tallied, enumerated, summed, quantified … more
approximating
  1. present participle of approximate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. approaching, nudging, touching, reaching, resembling, nearing, verging on, bordering on, coming close to, comparing with, coming near to, corresponding to, coming near, moving toward, measuring up to, stacking up against, equalling roughly, getting on for, stacking up with, coming close, bordering, closing in on, verging upon, bearing down on, drawing near, drawing up to, moving in on, coming within reach of, creeping up on, coming to, going up to, drawing near to, threatening, equaling, matching, coming up to, touching on, amounting to, equalling, adding up to, approximating to, converging on, surrounding, moving towards, gaining on, advancing on, coming towards, advancing towards, looming, arriving … more
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