Crossword clues for nearest
nearest
- Next of kin perhaps snared in Madrid will be back
- Least distant
- As neighbour next door, one listening into home?
- Handiest resolute knight sent to the front
- Those most close to me are in family home?
- Those held most dear live in a home
- Requiring the least driving
- Most close
- Sneer at (anag)
- Short and direct
- Most warm, in a way
- Johnny Cash: "You're the ____ Thing to Heaven"
- Eastern (anag)
- The N of ONO
- Supremely neighboring
- Most warm, so to speak
- Most local
- Most approximate
- Minimally removed
- Minimally distant
- Like closest seat
- Like a scoring ball in bocce, vis-à-vis the jack
- Like a best friend, say
- Dearest's companion
- Companion of dearest
- Best, as an estimate
- Directions-inquiry word
- Least remote
- Most convenient
- Most accessible
- Like a relative notified in an emergency, maybe
- Most at hand
- Like the relatives notified in emergencies, usually
- Like the pen or pencil you might reach for
- Most handy
- Most proximate
- Most intimate
- Least removed
- Closest by
- Least generous
- "Do the duty which lies ___ thee": Carlyle
- Most stingy
- Most imminent — most mean
- Proximate
- Moving north in earnest to be as close as possible
- Most immediate gain overwhelming god
- Most closely related
- Most accessible listener in shelter
- Closest among relatives are in cosy home
- Close relatives are visiting home
- Certainly it's not Far Eastern in origin
- Serious knight getting promoted to head is most miserly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Near \Near\, a. [Compar. Nearer; superl. Nearest.] [See Near, adv.]
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Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh. ``As one near death.''
--Shak.He served great Hector, and was ever near, Not with his trumpet only, but his spear.
--Dryden. -
Closely connected or related.
She is thy father's near kinswoman.
--Lev. xviii. 12. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.
Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.
So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow[3]; as, a near escape; a near miss.
Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See Off side, under Off, a.
Immediate; direct; close; short. ``The nearest way.''
--Milton.-
Close-fisted; parsimonious. [Obs. or Low, Eng.]
Note: Near may properly be followed by to before the thing approached; but more frequently to is omitted, and the adjective or the adverb is regarded as a preposition. The same is also true of the word nigh.
Syn: Nigh; close; adjacent; proximate; contiguous; present; ready; intimate; familiar; dear.
Wiktionary
a. Closest to, (en-superlative of: near). prep. closest to