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close

marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the observed facts"

rigorously attentive; strict and thorough; "close supervision"; "paid close attention"; "a close study"; "kept a close watch on expenditures"

at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other; "close to noon"; "how close are we to town?"; "a close formation of ships"

close in relevance or relationship; "a close family"; "we are all...in close sympathy with..."; "close kin"; "a close resemblance"

inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"

crowded; "close quarters"

(of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game"

used of hair or haircuts; "a close military haircut"

fitting closely but comfortably; "a close fit"

confined to specific persons; "a close secret"

strictly confined or guarded; "kept under close custody"

of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave"

in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard"

finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning"

complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement; "We closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the deal on the building"

move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window"

become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang"

fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?"

bar access to; "Due to the accident, the road had to be closed for several hours"

bring together all the elements or parts of; "Management closed ranks"

draw near; "The probe closed with the space station"

come together, as if in an embrace; "Her arms closed around her long lost relative"

change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact

cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop

engage at close quarters; "close with the enemy"

finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.); "The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board"

be priced or listed when trading stops; "The stock market closed high this Friday"; "My new stocks closed at $59 last night"

Synonyms:

• Autobahn,
• Spartan,
• US highway,
• abandonment,
• abbreviated,
• abort,
• about,
• about to be,
• abridged,
• abstruse,
• accented,
• accommodate,
• accost,
• accurate,
• adjacent,
• adjust,
• advance,
• agree,
• airless,
• airtight,
• alert,
• all but,
• alley,
• alleyway,
• almost,
• along toward,
• alongside,
• already in sight,
• alveolar,
• angustifoliate,
• angustirostrate,
• angustisellate,
• angustiseptal,
• apical,
• apico-alveolar,
• apico-dental,
• aposiopestic,
• approach,
• approaching,
• appropinquate,
• approximate,
• approximately,
• approximating,
• approximative,
• arcane,
• arena,
• arm-in-arm,
• around,
• arrange,
• arterial,
• arterial highway,
• arterial street,
• artery,
• articulated,
• as good as,
• assiduous,
• assimilated,
• at close quarters,
• at hand,
• attached,
• attentive,
• autistic,
• autoroute,
• autostrada,
• avaricious,
• avenue,
• back,
• bang,
• bar,
• barricade,
• barytone,
• bashful,
• batten,
• batten down,
• battle,
• bear down on,
• bear down upon,
• bear up,
• beclouded,
• belt highway,
• bilabial,
• blind,
• blind alley,
• block,
• block up,
• blockade,
• bolt,
• bonded,
• boulevard,
• box,
• brawl,
• breakoff,
• breathless,
• breezeless,
• brewing,
• brief,
• bristling,
• broad,
• broil,
• brusque,
• buddy-buddy,
• buried,
• burning,
• button,
• button up,
• bypass,
• byway,
• cabalistic,
• cacuminal,
• camino real,
• careful,
• carriageway,
• causeway,
• causey,
• cease,
• ceasing,
• cemented,
• censored,
• center,
• central,
• centralize,
• cerebral,
• cessation,
• chaussee,
• cheap,
• checked,
• cheek-by-jowl,
• chock,
• choke,
• choke off,
• cincture,
• circumferential,
• circumscribed,
• clap,
• clash,
• classified,
• climax,
• clinch,
• clipped,
• clos,
• close,
• close about,
• close at hand,
• close by,
• close down,
• close in,
• close off,
• close tight,
• close up,
• close with,
• close-fitting,
• close-knit,
• close-lipped,
• close-textured,
• close-tongued,
• close-woven,
• closed,
• closefisted,
• closely,
• closemouthed,
• closing,
• clouded,
• collide,
• combat,
• come,
• come closer,
• come forward,
• come near,
• come on,
• come to blows,
• come together,
• come up,
• coming,
• compact,
• compacted,
• compactly,
• comparable,
• compass,
• compass about,
• compendious,
• complete,
• completing,
• completion,
• compose,
• compressed,
• concealed,
• concenter,
• concentralize,
• concentrate,
• concentrated,
• concise,
• conclude,
• conclusion,
• concrete,
• condensed,
• confidential,
• confine,
• confined,
• confining,
• confront,
• congested,
• connect,
• conscientious,
• consolidated,
• consonant,
• consonantal,
• constant,
• constrict,
• constricted,
• contain,
• container,
• contend,
• contest,
• continuant,
• contract,
• contracted,
• converge,
• coop,
• corduroy road,
• correct,
• county road,
• court,
• courtyard,
• cover,
• covered,
• covert,
• crammed,
• crammed full,
• cramp,
• cramped,
• crawling,
• crescent,
• crisp,
• critical,
• croft,
• crowd,
• crowded,
• cryptic,
• cul-de-sac,
• culmination,
• curt,
• curtilage,
• cut,
• cut and thrust,
• dark,
• dead-end street,
• debar,
• decline,
• delicate,
• delimited field,
• demanding,
• dense,
• densely,
• dental,
• desinence,
• desistance,
• detailed,
• determine,
• devoted,
• dike,
• direct,
• dirt road,
• discontinuance,
• discontinuation,
• discontinue,
• discreet,
• disregard,
• dissimilated,
• dissociable,
• docked,
• dog,
• dorsal,
• draw near,
• draw nigh,
• drive,
• driveway,
• duel,
• dumb,
• dustproof,
• dusttight,
• eclipsed,
• economical of words,
• elliptic,
• embay,
• embosom,
• embrace,
• enclasp,
• enclave,
• enclose,
• enclosure,
• encompass,
• encounter,
• end,
• ending,
• enfold,
• enigmatic,
• envelop,
• environ,
• enwrap,
• epigrammatic,
• esoteric,
• establish,
• evasive,
• even,
• exact,
• exacting,
• exchange blows,
• exigent,
• express,
• expressway,
• exquisite,
• faithful,
• fall in with,
• familiar,
• fast,
• fast by,
• fasten,
• fastened,
• fence,
• feud,
• field,
• fight,
• fight a duel,
• fine,
• finical,
• finicking,
• finicky,
• finish,
• finish up,
• finishing,
• firm,
• firmly,
• fix,
• fixed,
• flat,
• fold,
• fold up,
• forthcoming,
• forty,
• freeway,
• front,
• full,
• full development,
• funnel,
• fussy,
• fusty,
• future,
• gain upon,
• gasproof,
• gastight,
• gathering,
• give and take,
• give satisfaction,
• glide,
• glossal,
• glottal,
• glued,
• gluey,
• gnomic,
• go around,
• go round,
• going to happen,
• grapple,
• grapple with,
• gravel road,
• ground,
• guarded,
• guttural,
• hand and glove,
• hand-in-hand,
• hard,
• hard by,
• hardfisted,
• heavily,
• heavy,
• hereabout,
• hereabouts,
• hermetic,
• hermetically sealed,
• hid,
• hidden,
• high,
• highroad,
• highway,
• highways and byways,
• homestretch,
• homologous,
• hot,
• humid,
• hush-hush,
• ignore,
• ill-ventilated,
• illiberal,
• immediate,
• imminent,
• impendent,
• impending,
• impenetrable,
• impermeable,
• in a cloud,
• in a fog,
• in danger imminent,
• in eclipse,
• in prospect,
• in purdah,
• in reserve,
• in spitting distance,
• in store,
• in the cards,
• in the neighborhood,
• in the offing,
• in the vicinity,
• in the wind,
• in the wings,
• in view,
• incapacious,
• incommodious,
• incommunicado,
• incompatible,
• indisposed to talk,
• inerrable,
• inerrant,
• infallible,
• inseparable,
• insociable,
• instant,
• intense,
• intent,
• intersect,
• interstate highway,
• intimate,
• intonated,
• invest,
• involve,
• isthmian,
• isthmic,
• jam,
• jam-packed,
• jammed,
• join,
• jostle,
• joust,
• just about,
• key,
• kill,
• kraal,
• labial,
• labiodental,
• labiovelar,
• laconic,
• lane,
• lap,
• lapse,
• last lap,
• last round,
• last stage,
• latch,
• latent,
• lateral,
• lax,
• light,
• lightproof,
• lighttight,
• like,
• limited,
• lingual,
• liquid,
• list,
• local road,
• lock,
• lock out,
• lock up,
• looming,
• lot,
• low,
• lowering,
• lurking,
• main drag,
• main road,
• make,
• make up,
• massive,
• mathematical,
• maturation,
• maturity,
• meager,
• mean,
• meet,
• menacing,
• meticulous,
• mews,
• micrometrically precise,
• microscopic,
• mid,
• mingy,
• minuscule,
• minute,
• miserly,
• mix it up,
• monophthongal,
• mopey,
• mopish,
• morose,
• motorway,
• much at one,
• much the same,
• muggy,
• mum,
• musty,
• mute,
• muted,
• mysterious,
• narrow,
• narrow the gap,
• nasal,
• nasalized,
• near,
• near at hand,
• near the mark,
• nearabout,
• nearabouts,
• nearby,
• nearing,
• nearish,
• nearly,
• nearly the same,
• nice,
• niggardly,
• nigh,
• nigh about,
• nighhand,
• nighish,
• nip,
• nongregarious,
• nonporous,
• not far,
• not far from,
• not quite,
• obfuscated,
• obscure,
• obscured,
• obstruct,
• obturate,
• occlude,
• occlusive,
• occult,
• oilproof,
• oiltight,
• on the horizon,
• only a step,
• open,
• oppressive,
• overhanging,
• overlook,
• oxytone,
• pack,
• packed,
• padlock,
• painstaking,
• palatal,
• palatalized,
• pale,
• paling,
• pally,
• palsy-walsy,
• parcel of land,
• park,
• parkway,
• parsimonious,
• particular,
• patch,
• pave,
• paved road,
• pen,
• penny-pinching,
• penurious,
• perfection,
• perorate,
• pharyngeal,
• pharyngealized,
• phonemic,
• phonetic,
• phonic,
• pike,
• pinch,
• pinchfisted,
• pinching,
• pinpoint,
• pitch,
• pitched,
• pithy,
• place,
• plank road,
• plat,
• plot,
• plot of ground,
• plumb,
• pointed,
• populous,
• posttonic,
• practically,
• precise,
• precisianistic,
• precisionistic,
• preparing,
• pretty near,
• primary highway,
• private,
• private road,
• privy,
• propinque,
• proximal,
• proximate,
• pruned,
• punctilious,
• punctual,
• quad,
• quadrangle,
• quarrel,
• quasi,
• quiet,
• rainproof,
• raintight,
• rassle,
• real estate,
• recondite,
• refined,
• relatable,
• religious,
• religiously exact,
• relinquishment,
• renunciation,
• reserved,
• resolve,
• restricted,
• reticent,
• retroflex,
• right-of-way,
• rigid,
• rigorous,
• ring road,
• riot,
• ripeness,
• road,
• roadbed,
• roadway,
• round,
• round about,
• rounded,
• rounding off,
• rounding out,
• route nationale,
• row,
• royal road,
• run a tilt,
• run together,
• same but different,
• save-all,
• scant,
• scanty,
• scientific,
• scientifically exact,
• scramble,
• scrap,
• scratch,
• scrupulous,
• scrutinizing,
• scuffle,
• seal,
• seal off,
• seal up,
• sealed,
• searching,
• secluded,
• secluse,
• secondary road,
• secret,
• secretive,
• section,
• secure,
• self-contained,
• self-sufficient,
• semivowel,
• sententious,
• sequestered,
• serried,
• set,
• settle,
• settle with,
• severe,
• shifty,
• short,
• short and sweet,
• shortened,
• shut,
• shut down,
• shut fast,
• shut off,
• shut out,
• shut the door,
• shut tight,
• shut up,
• shut up shop,
• shutdown,
• side-by-side,
• sidle up to,
• sign,
• silent,
• similar,
• skirmish,
• slam,
• slender,
• smokeproof,
• smoketight,
• smothered,
• snap,
• snug,
• socially incompatible,
• soft,
• solid,
• solidly,
• sonant,
• spar,
• sparing of words,
• speechless,
• speedway,
• square,
• squeeze,
• squeeze shut,
• stale,
• state highway,
• staunch,
• step up,
• sticky,
• stifle,
• stifled,
• stifling,
• stingy,
• stop,
• stop up,
• stopped,
• stopping,
• stormproof,
• stormtight,
• straighten out,
• strait,
• strangle,
• strangulate,
• street,
• stressed,
• strict,
• strive,
• strong,
• struggle,
• stuck,
• stuffy,
• substantial,
• subtle,
• succinct,
• suffocate,
• suffocating,
• sullen,
• sultry,
• summary,
• superhighway,
• suppressed,
• surcease,
• surd,
• surround,
• suspend,
• swarming,
• switch off,
• syllabic,
• synopsized,
• taciturn,
• taped,
• taper,
• teeming,
• tense,
• terminate,
• termination,
• terminus,
• terrace,
• terse,
• that will be,
• theater,
• thereabout,
• thereabouts,
• thick,
• thick as thieves,
• thick-growing,
• thickly,
• thickset,
• thorough,
• thoroughfare,
• threatening,
• throaty,
• through street,
• thrust and parry,
• thruway,
• tight,
• tight-fisted,
• tight-lipped,
• tightfisted,
• tilt,
• tiny,
• to come,
• to the point,
• toft,
• toll road,
• tonal,
• tongue-tied,
• tonic,
• top secret,
• topping off,
• tourney,
• township road,
• tract,
• truncated,
• turn off,
• turnpike,
• tussle,
• twangy,
• ulterior,
• unaccented,
• unbreatheable,
• unclubbable,
• uncommunicative,
• uncompanionable,
• uncongenial,
• under an eclipse,
• under cover,
• under house arrest,
• under security,
• under wraps,
• underground,
• undeviating,
• undisclosable,
• undisclosed,
• undivulgable,
• undivulged,
• unerring,
• unfriendly,
• ungenerous,
• ungenial,
• unite,
• unknown,
• unloquacious,
• unrevealable,
• unrevealed,
• unrounded,
• unsociable,
• unsocial,
• unspoken,
• unstressed,
• untalkative,
• untellable,
• untold,
• unutterable,
• unvented,
• unventilated,
• unwhisperable,
• upcoming,
• velar,
• vicinal,
• viscid,
• viscose,
• viscous,
• vocalic,
• vocoid,
• voiced,
• voiceless,
• vowel,
• vowellike,
• wage war,
• waiting,
• war,
• warm,
• water-repellant,
• waterproof,
• watertight,
• weak,
• wedged,
• well-nigh,
• wide,
• wind up,
• windless,
• windproof,
• windtight,
• windup,
• within call,
• within earshot,
• within hearing,
• within reach,
• word-bound,
• wordless,
• work out,
• wrap,
• wrapped in clouds,
• wrestle,
• wynd,
• yard,
• zip up,
• zipper