Antonyms for proximately


Grammar : Adv
Spell : prok-suh-mit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɒk sə mɪt


Definition of proximately

Origin :
  • "neighboring," 1590s (implied in proximately), from Late Latin proximatus, past participle of proximare "to draw near," from proximus "nearest, next" (see proximity).
  • As in approximately : adv nearly
  • As in shortly : adv right away
  • As in early : adv sooner than expected
Example sentences :
  • These men, as we believe, were proximately the means of his ruin.
  • Extract from : « Life of Robert Burns » by Thomas Carlyle
  • It is proximately reached in man, for man is the existent reason.
  • Extract from : « A Critical History of Greek Philosophy » by W. T. Stace
  • In the other, they are discordant, and are forced to reach their proximately proper adjustment through antagonism and struggle.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 » by Various
  • The proportion of expenses due to these enterprises and results may, in like manner, be proximately calculated.
  • Extract from : « Memorials of the Sea » by William Scoresby
  • The former is the great, substantial productive force: the latter is not immediately, or proximately, productive.
  • Extract from : « The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays » by Thorstein Veblen
  • But diseases were only immediately or proximately caused by disturbances in the balance or harmony of the humours.
  • Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
  • The same remark is proximately true of the literary life of the First Empire.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) » by John Holland Rose
  • The motion at any subsequent instant is proximately caused by the motion which took place at the instant preceding.
  • Extract from : « A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive » by John Stuart Mill
  • Proximately to complete our investigations—already far advanced—into the origin of the Universe.
  • Extract from : « The Crack of Doom » by Robert Cromie
  • It was proximately Austrian recklessness and indirectly, but just as strongly, German ambition.
  • Extract from : « Before the War » by Viscount Richard Burton Haldane

Synonyms for proximately

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