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Exact Match:

near

not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a close call"

closely resembling the genuine article; "near beer"; "a dress of near satin"

near in time or place or relationship; "as the wedding day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation"; "her mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the bullet didn't come close"; "don't get too close to the fire"

Synonyms:

• about,
• about to be,
• abutting,
• accost,
• adjacent,
• adjoining,
• advance,
• advancing,
• all but,
• almost,
• along toward,
• already in sight,
• among,
• angustifoliate,
• angustirostrate,
• angustisellate,
• angustiseptal,
• anticipate,
• ape,
• appear like,
• approach,
• approaching,
• appropinquate,
• approximate,
• approximating,
• approximative,
• arm-in-arm,
• around,
• as good as,
• aside,
• at,
• at close quarters,
• at hand,
• at next hand,
• attached,
• attracted to,
• avaricious,
• await,
• be destined,
• be fated,
• be imminent,
• be in store,
• be like,
• be redolent of,
• be to be,
• be to come,
• bear down on,
• bear down upon,
• bear resemblance,
• bear up,
• beside,
• bordering on,
• brew,
• brewing,
• bring to mind,
• burning,
• by,
• call to mind,
• call up,
• cheap,
• cheek-by-jowl,
• circa,
• circumscribed,
• close,
• close about,
• close at hand,
• close by,
• close in,
• close to,
• close upon,
• close with,
• close-by,
• close-fitting,
• closefisted,
• closely,
• come,
• come close,
• come closer,
• come forward,
• come near,
• come on,
• come up,
• coming,
• comparable,
• compare with,
• confined,
• confront,
• connected,
• constricted,
• contiguous,
• converge,
• copy,
• correspond,
• counterclockwise,
• counterfeit,
• cramp,
• cramped,
• crowded,
• draw near,
• draw nigh,
• draw on,
• drawn to,
• encounter,
• equal,
• evoke,
• expect,
• face,
• familiar,
• fast by,
• favor,
• follow,
• foresee,
• foretell,
• forthcome,
• forthcoming,
• from,
• future,
• gain upon,
• gather,
• gathering,
• going to happen,
• hairbreadth,
• hand and glove,
• hand-in-hand,
• hang over,
• hard,
• hard by,
• hard on,
• hardfisted,
• hereabout,
• hereabouts,
• homologous,
• hope,
• hot,
• hover,
• illiberal,
• imitate,
• immediate,
• imminent,
• impend,
• impendent,
• impending,
• in,
• in danger imminent,
• in prospect,
• in reserve,
• in spitting distance,
• in store,
• in the cards,
• in the offing,
• in the wind,
• in view,
• incapacious,
• incommodious,
• inseparable,
• instant,
• intimate,
• isthmian,
• isthmic,
• just about,
• larboard,
• lean towards,
• left,
• left-hand,
• left-wing,
• left-wingish,
• levorotatory,
• liberal,
• lie ahead,
• lie over,
• like,
• limited,
• look for,
• look forward to,
• look like,
• loom,
• looming,
• lower,
• lowering,
• lurking,
• match,
• meager,
• mean,
• menace,
• menacing,
• mimic,
• mirror,
• miserly,
• much at one,
• much the same,
• narrow,
• narrow the gap,
• near at hand,
• near the mark,
• near to,
• near upon,
• nearabout,
• nearabouts,
• nearby,
• nearing,
• nearish,
• nearly,
• nearly reproduce,
• nearly the same,
• next door to,
• next to,
• niggardly,
• nigh,
• nigh about,
• nighhand,
• nighish,
• not far,
• not far from,
• not quite,
• not tell apart,
• on,
• on the horizon,
• oncoming,
• only a step,
• overhang,
• overhanging,
• parallel,
• parsimonious,
• partake of,
• penny-pinching,
• penurious,
• pinchfisted,
• pinching,
• plan,
• plot,
• port,
• predict,
• preparing,
• pretty near,
• project,
• prophesy,
• propinque,
• proximal,
• proximate,
• quasi,
• radical,
• relatable,
• related,
• relative,
• remind one of,
• resemble,
• restricted,
• rival,
• round,
• same but different,
• save-all,
• savor of,
• scant,
• scanty,
• seem like,
• selfish,
• side-by-side,
• sidle up to,
• similar,
• simulate,
• sinister,
• sinistral,
• sinistrocerebral,
• sinistrocular,
• sinistrogyrate,
• sinistrorse,
• slender,
• smack of,
• sound like,
• stack up with,
• step up,
• stingy,
• strait,
• suggest,
• take after,
• that will be,
• thereabout,
• thereabouts,
• thick,
• thick as thieves,
• threaten,
• threatening,
• tight,
• tight-fisted,
• tightfisted,
• to,
• to come,
• touch,
• toward,
• ungenerous,
• upcoming,
• verge on,
• verging on,
• verging upon,
• vicinal,
• virtually,
• waiting,
• warm,
• well-nigh,
• with,
• within call,
• within earshot,
• within hearing,
• within reach,
• within sight