Approaches Synonyms and Antonyms

A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. overtures
  2. attacks
  3. strategies
  4. programs
  5. advances
  6. procedures
  7. feelers
Overture; usually plural
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. propositions
  2. offers
A way of entering or leaving
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. plans
  2. accesses
  3. paths
  4. tacks
  5. modi-operandi
  6. ways
  7. courses
  8. attacks
  9. roads
  10. techniques
  11. procedures
  12. passageways
  13. line
Antonyms:
  1. departures
To approximate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. compares
  2. undertakes
  3. starts
  4. opens
  5. launches
  6. institutes
  7. initiates
  8. inaugurates
  9. enters
  10. embarks
  11. commences
  12. begins
  13. approximates
To bring an appeal or request, for example, to the attention of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. requests
  2. corners
  3. sues
  4. accosts
  5. petitions
  6. applies
  7. addresses
  8. appeals
  9. proposes
Antonyms:
  1. shuns
  2. avoids
Move towards
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. nears
  2. threatens
  3. decreases
  4. diminishes
  5. awaits
Antonyms:
  1. extends
  2. recedes

Words Related to Approaches

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Approaches Sentence Examples

  • The total length, with approaches, is 5,630 ft.

  • But I soon found that I was cut off from all the usual approaches to the child's heart.

  • Everybody gets a little nervous as the wedding date approaches.

  • On the lath of December, when the Swedish approaches had come within 280 paces of the fortress of Fredriksten, which the Swedes were closely besieging, Charles looked over the parapet of the foremost trench, and was shot through the head by a bullet from the fortress.

  • Projected perpendicularly against a plane boundary, the motion is determined by an equal opposite vortex ring, the optical image; the vortex ring spreads out and moves more slowly as it approaches the wall; at the same time the molecular rotation, inversely as the cross-section of the vortex, is seen to increase.

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