More proximate

• Less distant
• In closer proximity to
• More likely to bump into
• More likely to encounter
• More convenient
• Not farther away
• "___ in bloody thoughts, but not in blood": Richard III
• More thrifty
• More contiguous

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nearer \nearer\ adj. less distant in space; as, we walked to the nearer house.