| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way, means of arriving |
Synonyms: |
access, accession, advance, advent, avenue, coming, drawing near, entrance, gate, landing, nearing, passage, path, reaching, road, way |
Antonyms: |
departure, distancing, leaving |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request, suggestion |
Synonyms: |
advance, appeal, application, offer, overture, proposal, proposition |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan of attack, resolution |
Synonyms: |
attitude, concept, course, crack, fling, go*, idea, lick, manner, means, method, mode, modus operandi, new wrinkle, offer, procedure, program, shot, stab, style, technique, way, whack, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come nearer |
Synonyms: |
advance, approximate, be comparable to, be like, bear, belly up to, border, buzz*, catch up, close in, come, come at, come close, compare with, contact, converge, correspond to, creep up, draw near, equal, gain on, go toward, impend, loom up, match, meet, move in on, move toward, near, progress, reach, resemble, surround, take after, threaten, verge upon |
Antonyms: |
depart, distance, go away, leave |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make request, suggestion |
Synonyms: |
accost, address, advise, appeal to, apply to, beseech, confer, consult, entreat, feel, feel one out, give a play, give a tumble, greet, implore, make advance, make overture, make up to, plead, propose, sound out, speak to, supplicate, take aside, talk to, thumb, tumble |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | begin |
Synonyms: |
commence, embark, set about, start, undertake |
| Concept: | [Motion towards] Approach. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
approach, approximation, appropinquation; access; appulse; afflux, affluxion; advent (approach of time); pursuit.
-verbs
approach, approximate, appropinquate; near; get near, go near, draw near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in towards; drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue; tread on the heels of; bear up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land.
-adjectives
approaching; approximative; affluent; impending, imminent (destined [more]).
-adverbs
on the road.
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Antonyms: |
recession (Motion from)] |
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| Main Entry: | access |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admission, means of entry, approach |
Synonyms: |
admittance, approach, avenue, connection, contact, course, door, entrance, entree, entry, in, ingress, introduction, key, open arms, open door, passage, path, road, route, way |
Antonyms: |
egress, outlet |
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak to a formal gathering |
Synonyms: |
approach, bespeak, call, deliver speech, deliver talk, discourse, discuss, get on a soapbox, give speech, give talk, greet, hail, lecture, memorialize, orate, pitch, pontificate, root for, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, take the floor, talk |
| Main Entry: | advance(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desirous pursuit of someone |
Synonyms: |
approach, move, overture, proposal, proposition, suggestion |
Antonyms: |
disinterest, ignorance |