approximative

If anything in this world can give you an approximative idea of this exquisitely perfumed movement, it is the dance for the piccolos in the Almée of Felicien David.

From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall

Answer:—No; they do not deny its general propositions, nor the approximative truths of the scientific hypotheses.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

The ear is only a guide to the harmony of a Period, and often tempts us into the feebleness of expletives or approximative expressions for the sake of a cadence.

From The Principles of Success in Literature by George Henry Lewes

No rational thinker hopes to discover more than some few primary actions of law, and some approximative theory of growth. 

From Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley

This process is but approximative, and some practice is necessary before the operator succeeds in getting uniform results from the same series of specimens.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds