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thereabouts

ADVERB
generally
Synonyms
STRONGEST
broadly commonly customarily largely mostly normally ordinarily publicly roughly typically universally usually widely
WEAK
about all in all almost always altogether approximately as a rule by and large chiefly conventionally en masse extensively for the most part habitually on average on the whole overall popularly practically predominantly primarily principally regularly roundly
Antonyms
STRONGEST
rarely sometimes unusually
WEAK
exactly particularly seldom specifically
ADVERB
more or less
Synonyms
WEAK
about almost around ballpark figure bordering on circa close to in the ballpark in the neighborhood of in the vicinity of just about not far from not quite on average relatively roughly very close

Example Sentences

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The men in this book, in their 60s or thereabouts, represent different walks of life and various stages of contentment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The current 30-year mortgage rate is still 6.2% or thereabouts; that has added thousands of dollars to an average person’s annual mortgage payments.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 15, 2025

If pushed, they almost always say that it was during the 1950s or thereabouts.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2024

But just now, the late spring weather forecast for temperatures and precipitation thereabouts looks hearteningly like the dramatic peninsula itself: high and dry.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson