Synonyms of approaches

approaches 1 of 2

noun

plural of approach

1

as in paths

an established course for traveling from one place to another

will take the standard landing approach from the south

Synonyms & Similar Words

• paths
• routes
• ways
• roads
• avenues
• highways
• passages
• walks
• arteries
• trails
• drives
• roadways
• tracks
• passes
• streets
• lanes
• thoroughfares
• passageways
• boulevards
• routeways
• pike
• byways
• rows
• walkways
• bypasses
• bypaths
• expressways
• freeways
• turnpikes
• channels
• airways
• high roads
• portals
• hatches
• doors
• gates
• laneways
• doorways
• waterways
• gateways
• traces
• watercourses
• cycleways
• bikeways
• gats

2

as in methods

the means or procedure for doing something

that's a different approach to knitting, but it seems to work

Synonyms & Similar Words

• methods
• strategies
• methodologies
• techniques
• ways
• manners
• recipes
• systems
• tactics
• styles
• forms
• plans
• fashions
• modes
• models
• programs
• tacks
• policies
• steps
• hows
• routes
• schemes
• practices
• processes
• designs
• blueprints
• moves
• shifts
• layouts
• plots
• games
• routines
• intrigues
• game plans
• ground plans
• lines
• modi operandi
• expedients

approaches

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of approach

1

as in comes

to come near or nearer

the parade's approaching! I can hear the band playing!

Synonyms & Similar Words

• comes
• closes
• nears
• arrives
• closes in
• lands
• draws on
• reaches
• comes up
• attains
• hits
• bellies up
• gains
• turns up
• touches
• nighs
• sneaks up
• waltzes (up)
• shows up
• borders
• makes
• creeps up
• verges
• adjoins

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• retreats
• withdraws
• recedes
• retires
• backs (up or away)
• leaves
• goes
• exits
• departs
• removes
• walks out
• runs away
• pulls out
• takes off
• quits
• shoves (off)
• lights out
• clears out

2

as in enters

to move closer to

approach the bull with caution

Synonyms & Similar Words

• comes
• enters
• nears
• advances
• drops in
• nighs
• pops (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• goes
• withdraws
• leaves
• retreats
• exits
• departs
• recedes (from)

3

as in approximates

to come near or nearer to in character or quality

his store-bought dessert doesn't even approach your homemade version of it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• approximates
• measures up (to)
• reflects
• compares (with)
• matches
• stacks up (against or with)
• parallels
• mirrors
• amounts (to)
• holds a candle to
• comes (to)
• adds up (to)
• touches (on)
• equals
• duplicates
• borders (on)
• verges (on)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of approaches

Noun

The community space could host nutrition and cooking workshops, emphasizing culturally relevant approaches and FAM coupled with dietitian support, which have proven especially effective. — Marian Flaxman, New York Daily News, 23 Aug. 2026

These approaches can be expensive and difficult to deploy over large areas. — Nolan Roth, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026

Traditional approaches to studying cause-and-effect relationships are often not possible when investigating populations and ecosystems, which are large, complex and messy. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

As the primary approaches, Fishback hopes DeSantis and his wife, Casey, will vote for him. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 16 Aug. 2026

In fact, those can be precisely the wrong approaches, according to Lauren Linnane, an American fashion designer who has lived in Milan for three years. — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026

By the end, Nidhi comes to find both approaches inadequate, even self-protective. — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

Such work is part of a much larger push toward compact quantum hardware, including new approaches for scaling qubits on chips. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

New approaches must be shaped that invest the remaining endowment wisely. — Jim Nowlan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026

Verb

Rajic approaches sales as primarily a science, not an art, his former colleagues say. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

Environmental conditions appear favorable for gradual strengthening during the next few days as the system approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the hurricane center said in an online forecast. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

But artificial intelligence is changing those industries — and how Georgia Tech approaches its curriculum. — Leondra Head, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

There is nothing new under the sun, only perhaps approaches to more perfect versions that already exist in some transcendent place. — Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026

Visitors are advised to keep at least 50 meters (164 feet) away from the deer, never feed or touch them and if one approaches you to put food and packaging out of sight and move away slowly and calmly. — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026

Gerona said Revolve approaches physical retail as an extension of their digital platform. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026

Once there, Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf watch as the butterfly approaches the outstretched hand of a woman whose face is obscured, before the ominous presence crushes it in her hands. — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Aug. 2026

MouthPad approaches that problem from a completely different direction. — Jesse Watson , Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026