Synonyms:
- about,
- all but,
- almost,
- along toward,
- approach,
- approaching,
- approximate,
- approximating,
- arm-in-arm,
- around,
- as good as,
- aside,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- at next hand,
- beside,
- bordering on,
- burning,
- by,
- cheek-by-jowl,
- circa,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- close to,
- close upon,
- closely,
- come near,
- converge,
- counterclockwise,
- draw near,
- draw nigh,
- fast by,
- hand-in-hand,
- hard,
- hard by,
- hard on,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hot,
- immediate,
- in spitting distance,
- intimate,
- just about,
- larboard,
- left,
- left-hand,
- left-wing,
- left-wingish,
- levorotatory,
- liberal,
- near,
- near at hand,
- near the mark,
- near to,
- near upon,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nearby,
- nearing,
- nearish,
- nearly,
- next door to,
- nigh about,
- nighhand,
- nighish,
- not far,
- not far from,
- not quite,
- only a step,
- port,
- pretty near,
- propinque,
- proximal,
- proximate,
- radical,
- round,
- side-by-side,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinistrocerebral,
- sinistrocular,
- sinistrogyrate,
- sinistrorse,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- verging on,
- verging upon,
- vicinal,
- warm,
- well-nigh,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within reach