Definitions for proximate

proximate prox·i·mate

Spelling: [prok-suh-mit]
IPA: /ˈprɒk sə mɪt/

Proximate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 536 anagrams from letters in proximate (aeimoprtx).

Definitions for proximate

adjective

  1. next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
  2. close; very near.
  3. approximate; fairly accurate.
  4. forthcoming; imminent.

Origin of proximate

1590-1600; Late Latin proximātus, past participle of proximāre to near, approach. See proximal, -ate1

Examples for proximate

This summons all the proximate Beyoncé voters, as we reply in a full-throated roar, “ALLLLLL THE SINGLE LAAAAADIES!”

In conclusion, we may say a word regarding the proximate future of Niagara.

It brings out the distance and doubt that festered within the proximate intimacy of the Marston family.

But it will not stop the mentally ill from reaping carnage because the proximate cause of their carnage is disease, not hardware.

The obvious and proximate cause of his death was affliction.

The rising cost of health insurance is the proximate cause of middle-class income stagnation.

It is not, and cannot be, split into a proximate and a remote object.

The causes of insanity may be divided into (a) general, and (b) proximate.

If anything, the opposite is true: one has to love power desperately to accept a job merely to be proximate to it.

We have now to consider the genesis and proximate destiny of the Falls of Niagara.

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