CLOSEST Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

closest

adjective

as in nearest

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Adjective

In nearby Indianapolis, the annual gaming convention GenCon has had record-breaking attendance for the past two years with about 74,000 attendees and more than 800 vendors in 2026, according to its website.

— Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2026
Two of the Falcon Heavy’s boosters will make their way back to nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for a landing, aiming for touchdowns at Landing Zones 2 and 40.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of nearby

Adjective

Waiting from age 62 until 70 to start receiving Social Security retirement benefits provides an approximate 76% total benefit boost as well as roughly 76% more of every annual cost-of-living adjustment, Mahaney writes in the research.

— Lorie Konish, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
These are approximate figures; rents differ across different halls.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of approximate

Adjective

This has your typical upscale open-concept kitchen (lots of storage space, top-shelf appliances, and marble countertops), and the adjacent dining nook leads out to a private balcony.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2026
Why do two different, mutually adjacent cities have the same name?

— Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of adjacent

Adjective

Fulcrum has yet to fill the ground-floor retail space there, but Koss said the firm is intent on finding tenants as unique as the brewery next-door, and the wine bar, Franquette.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026
The 25-year-old next-door neighbor to the Disneyland Resort will be doubling the size of its Avengers Campus in the coming months.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of next-door

Adjective

Temperatures are expected to be in the mid-90s to near 100 degrees, with heat index values as high as 105 degrees.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
Organizations must be able to trace agent behavior across cloud and SaaS systems in near-real time, not through post-incident investigations that take days or weeks.

— Brian Contos, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of near

Adjective

His best explanations for this are pressure from shareholders to prioritize immediate returns over long-term investments, and years of obsession with digital that came at the expense of physical retail.

— Hilary Milnes, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
These models predict what the fuel will do in the immediate future.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of immediate

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