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proximate

[ prok-suh-mit ]

adjective

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


proximate

/ ˈprɒksɪmɪt /

adjective

  1. next or nearest in space or time
  2. very near; close
  3. immediately preceding or following in a series
  4. a less common word for approximate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈproximately, adverb
  • ˌproxiˈmation, noun
  • ˈproximateness, noun
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Other Words From

  • proxi·mate·ly adverb
  • proxi·mate·ness noun
  • prox·i·ma·tion [prok-s, uh, -, mey, -sh, uh, n], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of proximate1

1590–1600; < Late Latin proximātus, past participle of proximāre to near, approach. See proximal, -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of proximate1

C16: from Late Latin proximāre to draw near, from Latin proximus next, from prope near
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Example Sentences

The more proximate causes of the pollution deaths include pneumonia, stroke, and heart disease.

Amenities often include picnic tables, fire pits, nearby tent areas, and a proximate water source.

The proximate cause of this year’s drought is a weak summer monsoon coupled with La Niña conditions that steered storms north.

The proximate cause of Texas’s grid failure is now well understood.

The sample groups in both studies were small, and in the overwhelming number of cases of coronavirus death, heart failure is not the proximate cause.

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

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

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

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

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

Ultimate causes, of course, will be overlooked; only proximate causes will be noticed.

This need not be the ultimate mover, but a proximate one having a particular function.

A relation exists only between things of the same proximate species, as between white and black.

And this consideration begets love, which is the proximate cause of devotion.

That proximate circles or larger groups are connected by the intervention of lesser groups, which he denominates osculant.

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