Synonyms for Near:

adj.
• approaching
- Looming
- advancing
- approaching
- closing
- converging
- expected
- forthcoming
- nearby
- proximate
• comparative
- by comparison
- contrastive
- in proportion
- not absolute
- not positive
- with reservation
- metaphorical
• contiguous
- Contactual
- juxtapositional
- next to
• future
- down the line
- down the pike
- down the road
- from here in
- from here on
- from here to eternity
- from now on in
- in the course of time
- looked toward
- just around the corner
• left
- hard to left
- portside
- south
- nigh side
- porter
• like
- Allying
- co-extensive
- coextensive
- congeneric
- congenerous
- in the manner of
- not unlike
- on the order of
- undifferentiated
- such
• narrow
- linear
- straiter
- threadlike
• near
- by
- close
- hairbreadth
- immediate
- local
- neighborhood
• present
- in attendance
- made the scene
- on board
- on deck
- on the spot
- on-the-spot
- there
- there with bells on
• quasi
- semi
- semi-
- pseudo-
• stingy
- Pinchpenny
- Ungiving
- curmudgeonly
- ironfisted
- pennywise
- scurvy
• straight
- collinear
- like an arrow
- lineal
- non-stop
- rectilineal
- unbent
- uncurled
- undeviating
- undistorted
- in a line
- in a row
- rectilinear
• substitute
- Substitutive
- proxier
- vicarial
- replacement
• threatening
- Intimidatory
- Lowery
- comminatory
- loury
- Ill-boding
• accessible
- door always open
- doors always open
- ex posed
- ex-posed
- more getatable
- most getatable
- most possible
- un restricted
- un-restricted
• adjacent
- more alongside
- more beside
- most alongside
- most beside
• adjoining
- inter connecting
- inter-connecting
- joined
- more abutting
- more approximal
- more coterminous
- more impinging
- more joining
- more juxtaposed
- more verging
- most abutting
- most approximal
- most coterminous
- most impinging
- most joining
- most juxtaposed
- most verging
• all
- near
• approximate
- more almost
- most almost
• bordering
- more bounding
- more edging
- more skirting
- most bounding
- most edging
- most skirting
- on edge of
• close by physically
- abutting
- convenient
- hair's breadth
- side-by-side
• close in time; forthcoming
- next
• coming
- almost on one
- almost one
- de serving
- de-serving
- fated
- fore seen
- fore-seen
- gaining up on
- in offing
- in wind
- more advancing
- more converging
- more docking
- more predestined
- more preparing
- more progressing
- most advancing
- most converging
- most docking
- most predestined
- most preparing
- most progressing
- ordained
- pre destined
- pre paring
- pre-destined
- pre-paring
- pursuing
- sub sequent
- sub-sequent
- up and coming
- up-and-coming
• destined
- de signed
- de-signed
- fore ordained
- fore-ordained
- in cards
- in escapable
- in evitable
- in exorable
- in tended
- in-escapable
- in-evitable
- in-exorable
- in-tended
- more brewing
- more compelled
- more designed
- more foreordained
- more meant
- more overhanging
- more predesigned
- most brewing
- most compelled
- most designed
- most foreordained
- most meant
- most overhanging
- most predesigned
- over-hanging
- pre designed
- pre determined
- pre-designed
- pre-determined
- that is be
- un avoidable
- un-avoidable
- way ball bounces
• familiar
- affecting
- akin
- related
• handy
• hard-fisted
- hard fisted
- more niggard
- most niggard
- most niggardly
• imminent
- fast approaching
- fastapproaching
- in air
- more fast approaching
- more fast-approaching
- more fastapproaching
- more gathering
- more handwriting on the wall
- more handwriting-on-the-wall
- more inevasible
- more unescapable
- most fast approaching
- most fast-approaching
- most fastapproaching
- most gathering
- most handwriting on the wall
- most handwriting-on-the-wall
- most inevasible
- most unescapable
- on horizon
- on verge
- un escapable
- un-escapable
• impending
- looking to
- more hovering
- more portending
- most hovering
- most portending
• intimate
- clubbier
- clubbiest
- mixest
- more bosom
- more cherished
- more roommate
- most bosom
- most cherished
- most roommate
- re gular
- re-gular
adv.
• round
- all but
• thereabout
- in neighborhood
• around
- close hand
• aside
- neck neck
- out
- out of way
- out the way
- out way
• beside
- at edge of
- at elbow
- at one elbow
- at ones elbow
- at side of
- be side
- be-side
- close up on
- over-looking
• fore
- Precedently
- be forehand
- be-forehand
• on
- forth
adv. & prep.
• beside
- over looking
n.
- by the time
- any day/moment etc. now
- at the earliest/first opportunity
- in no time (at all)
- in the short run/term
- creep by
- go by
- slip by
- the passage of time
- tick away
- time flies
- wear on
• almost
- almost
• neighbouring
- neighbouring
• stone's throw
- close range
- earshot
- eyeshot
- spitting distance
prep.
• by
- by way of
• circa
- close on
- in region of
v.
• approach
- access
• approximate
- came near
- comes near
- verged on
- verges on
• bear down
- advanced on
- advances on
- advancing on
- converged on
- converges on
- converging on
• border on
- am similar to
- are similar to
- art similar to
- being similar to
- lay near
- lay next to
- lied near
- lied next to
- lies near
- lies next to
- lying near
- lying next to
- was similar to
- wast similar to
- were similar to
- wert similar to
• come
- am accessible
- am at disposal
- am convenient
- am disposal
- am handy
- am obtainable
- am ready
- are accessible
- are at disposal
- are convenient
- are disposal
- are handy
- are ready
- art accessible
- art at disposal
- art convenient
- art handy
- art obtainable
- art ready
- be came
- be come
- be comes
- be disposal
- be-came
- be-come
- be-comes
- be-coming
- being accessible
- being at disposal
- being convenient
- being disposal
- being handy
- being obtainable
- being ready
- blew in
- blows in
- bobbed up
- bobbing up
- bobs up
- breezed in
- breezes in
- breezing in
- clocking in
- clocks in
- falling by
- falling in
- falls by
- falls in
- fell by
- fell in
- hits town
- hitting town
- is accessible
- is at disposal
- is convenient
- is disposal
- is handy
- is obtainable
- is ready
- made scene
- make scene
- makes it
- makes scene
- makes the scene
- making it
- making scene
- making the scene
- popped up
- popping in
- popping up
- pops in
- punch clock
- punched clock
- punched the clock
- punches clock
- punches in
- punches the clock
- punching clock
- punching in
- punching the clock
- rang in
- ringed in
- ringing in
- rings in
- rolled in
- rolls in
- signed in
- signing in
- signs in
- skied in
- skies in
- skyed in
- skying in
- sprang in
- springing in
- springs in
- sprung in
- was accessible
- was at disposal
- was convenient
- was disposal
- was handy
- was obtainable
- was ready
- wast accessible
- wast at disposal
- wast convenient
- wast disposal
- wast handy
- wast obtainable
- wast ready
- were accessible
- were at disposal
- were convenient
- were disposal
- were handy
- were obtainable
- were ready
- wert accessible
- wert at disposal
- wert convenient
- wert disposal
- wert handy
- wert obtainable
- wert ready
- wind at
- winded at
- winded up at
- winding at
- winding up at
- winds at
- winds up at
- wound at
- wound up at
• go
- bugging out
- bugs out
- de camp
- de camped
- de camping
- de camps
- de part
- de parted
- de parting
- de parts
- de-camp
- de-camped
- de-camping
- de-camps
- de-part
- de-parted
- de-parting
- de-parts
- gat away
- gat going
- gat lost
- gets going
- gets lost
- getting lost
- got lost
- gotten going
- gotten lost
- hit road
- lit out
- made a break for it
- made break for it
- made one way
- made one's way
- made ones way
- made way
- make break for it
- make one way
- make ones way
- makes a break for it
- makes break for it
- makes for
- makes one way
- makes one's way
- makes ones way
- makes way
- making a break for it
- making break for it
- making one way
- making one's way
- making ones way
- moves out
- moving out
- pushing on
- ran along
- re pair
- re paired
- re pairing
- re pairs
- re tire
- re tired
- re tires
- re tiring
- re-pair
- re-paired
- re-pairing
- re-pairs
- re-tire
- re-tiring
- running along
- runs along
- sets off
- skipped out
- skipping out
- skips out
- take hike
- take powder
- takes a hike
- takes a powder
- takes flight
- takes hike
- takes leave
- takes powder
- taking a hike
- taking a powder
- taking hike
- taking powder
- took a hike
- took a powder
- took hike
- took leave
- took powder
- with draw
- with drawing
- with drawn
- with draws
- with drew
- with-draw
- with-drawing
- with-drawn
- with-drew
• loom
- am at hand
- am cards
- am coming
- am hand
- am imminent
- am in cards
- am the cards
- am the wind
- am wind
- are at hand
- are cards
- are coming
- are forthcoming
- are hand
- are imminent
- are in cards
- are in the cards
- are in the wind
- are in wind
- are the cards
- are the wind
- are wind
- art at hand
- art cards
- art coming
- art forthcoming
- art hand
- art imminent
- art in cards
- art in the cards
- art in the wind
- art in wind
- art near
- art the cards
- art the wind
- art wind
- be cards
- be hand
- be in cards
- be in wind
- be the cards
- be the wind
- be wind
- became visible
- becoming visible
- being at hand
- being cards
- being coming
- being forthcoming
- being hand
- being imminent
- being in cards
- being in the cards
- being in the wind
- being in wind
- being near
- being the cards
- being the wind
- being wind
- brake through
- breaks through
- broke through
- came in to view
- came into view
- came on scene
- came on the scene
- came scene
- came the scene
- come in to view
- come on scene
- come scene
- come the scene
- comes in to view
- comes on scene
- comes on the scene
- comes scene
- comes the scene
- coming forth
- coming in to view
- coming into view
- coming on scene
- coming on the scene
- coming scene
- coming the scene
- hanged over
- hangs over
- hung over
- is at hand
- is cards
- is coming
- is forthcoming
- is hand
- is imminent
- is in cards
- is in the cards
- is in the wind
- is in wind
- is near
- is the cards
- is the wind
- is wind
- over hang
- over hangs
- over shadow
- over shadowed
- over shadowing
- over shadows
- over topped
- over topping
- over tops
- over-hang
- over-hangs
- over-shadow
- over-shadowed
- over-shadowing
- over-shadows
- over-topped
- over-topping
- over-tops
- seemed huge
- seemed large
- seeming huge
- seeming large
- seems huge
- seems large
- takes shape
- taking shape
- took shape
- was at hand
- was cards
- was coming
- was forthcoming
- was hand
- was imminent
- was in cards
- was in the cards
- was in the wind
- was in wind
- was near
- was the cards
- was the wind
- was wind
- wast at hand
- wast cards
- wast coming
- wast forthcoming
- wast hand
- wast imminent
- wast in cards
- wast in the cards
- wast in the wind
- wast in wind
- wast near
- wast the cards
- wast the wind
- wast wind
- were at hand
- were cards
- were coming
- were forthcoming
- were hand
- were imminent
- were in cards
- were in the cards
- were in the wind
- were in wind
- were near
- were the cards
- were the wind
- were wind
- wert at hand
- wert cards
- wert coming
- wert forthcoming
- wert hand
- wert imminent
- wert in cards
- wert in the cards
- wert in the wind
- wert in wind
- wert near
- wert the cards
- wert the wind
- wert wind
Other synonyms:

•

remove

•

inside
touch

•

hang
meet
range

Other relevant words:

• adjacent

side by side
touching

• approach

• around

round

• at close range

quarter

• bear down

advance on
converge on

• border on

• close to

in and about or around

• come on

come-on

• comparable

comparative

• forward

fore

• imminent

corner

• personally

person

• Other relevant words (adjective):

• Other relevant words (adverb):

• Other relevant words (noun):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

• Other relevant words (verb):

activity
come to a halt

What are the paraphrases for Near?

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Equivalence
- Preposition or subordinating conjunction
  nearer.
- Adjective
  closer, closest, foreseeable, nigh.
- Proper noun, singular
  vicinity, Nearing.
- Noun, singular or mass
  vicinity.
Reverse Entailment
- Proper noun, singular
  nears.
Independent
- Preposition or subordinating conjunction
  along, requests.
- Adjective
  brief, distant, impending, neighbour, neighbourhood, neighbouring, proximate, recent, similar, upcoming, next-door, near-term, not-too-distant, near-earth.
- Proper noun, singular
  hits, WORMS.
- Noun, plural
  blocks.
- Adverb
  carefully, closely, closer, roughly.
- Verb, past tense
  said, Approached.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  Comes, continues, brings, draws, reaches, seems.
Other Related
- Adjective
  nearby.
- Proper noun, singular
  nearby, nearly.
- Adverb
  nearby, nearly.

What are the hypernyms for Near?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
adjacent, close, convenient, immediate, local, nigh, within reach, in the vicinity, right at hand.

What are the opposite words for near?

The word "near" indicates proximity or closeness. Its antonyms refer to distance or remoteness. Some common antonyms for "near" include "far," "distant," "remote," "away," and "far-off." These words suggest a considerable distance or separation between two objects or places. For example, if something is "far" from you, it means that it is not close to you, nor within easy reach. Similarly, if something is "remote," it suggests it is distant or removed from where you currently are. Understanding antonyms for "near" is helpful in communication and expressing distance or remoteness between people, places, or objects.

What are the antonyms for Near?

a. & adv.
• far
- farther
- farthest
- more far removed
- more farremoved
adj.
• all
- far
• aloof, disinterested; neutral
- detached
• close by physically
- away
- cool
- deferred
- distant
- expired
- faraway
- gone
- past
- postponed
- remote
- separate
- unfamiliar
• close in time; forthcoming
- later
• detached
- Unpassioned
- dis passionate
- dis-passionate
- in curious
- in different
- in-curious
- in-different
- laidback
- more poker faced
- more uncurious
- more unpassioned
- most poker faced
- most poker-faced
- most uncurious
- most unpassioned
- out it
- out of it
- poker faced
- poker-faced
- re moved
- re served
- re-served
- un biased
- un committed
- un concerned
- un curious
- un involved
- un prejudiced
- un-committed
- un-concerned
- un-curious
- un-involved
- un-prejudiced
- uncurious
- with drawn
- with-drawn
• distant
- Uncompanionable
- a piece
- arm length
- arms length
- beyond range
- far back
- far-off
- in background
- in boonies
- in direct
- in distance
- in sociable
- in sticks
- in the background
- in the boonies
- in the distance
- in the sticks
- in-direct
- in-sociable
- laid back
- middle nowhere
- middle of nowhere
- more apart
- more asunder
- more away
- more insociable
- more sequestered
- more standoff
- more telescopic
- more uncompanionable
- more yonder
- most apart
- most asunder
- most away
- most insociable
- most sequestered
- most standoff
- most telescopic
- most uncompanionable
- most ways
- most yonder
- not home
- out earshot
- out lying
- out of earshot
- out of range
- out of reach
- out range
- out reach
- out-lying
- put airs
- put on airs
- re strained
- re tired
- re tiring
- re-strained
- re-tired
- re-tiring
- retired
- stuckup
- telescopic
- un approachable
- un companionable
- un friendlier
- un friendliest
- un-approachable
- un-friendlier
- un-friendliest
- un-friendly
- un-sociable
- unapproachable
- up pity
- up-pity
- wide of
• extreme
- extra ordinary
- extra-ordinary
- extreme
- further-most
- in temperate
- in tense
- in tenser
- in-ordinate
- in-temperate
- in-tense
- in-tenser
- in-tensest
- more overkill
- out and out
- out most
- out of proportion
- out proportion
- outer-most
- over kill
- over-kill
- overkill
- top-pest
- un bending
- un common
- un commoner
- un commonest
- un compromising
- un conventional
- un reasonable
- un seemlier
- un seemliest
- un seemly
- un usual
- un-bending
- un-common
- un-commoner
- un-compromising
- un-conventional
- un-reasonable
- un-seemlier
- un-seemliest
- un-usual
- utter most
- utter-most
- uttermost
• faint
- ill defined
- illdefined
- in audible
- in distinct
- in-audible
- in-distinct
- low pitched
- lowpitched
- more aside
- more bated
- more bleached
- more blurred
- more deadened
- more faltering
- more muted
- more muttering
- more piano
- more stifled
- most aside
- most bated
- most bleached
- most deadened
- most faltering
- most murmuring
- most muted
- most muttering
- most piano
- most softened
- most stifled
- un clear
- un clearest
- un-clear
- un-clearest
• familiar
- disconnected
- unfriendly
- unrelated
• far-flung
- Farstretched
- ex tensive
- far extending
- far flung
- far going
- far reaching
- far spread
- far stretched
- far-spread
- far-stretched
- farextending
- farflung
- fargoing
- farreaching
- farspread
- more far extending
- more far going
- more far spread
- more far stretched
- more far-extending
- more far-going
- more far-spread
- more far-stretched
- more farextending
- more farspread
- more farstretched
- more wide extending
- more wide reaching
- more wide stretching
- more wide-extending
- more wide-ranging
- more wide-stretching
- more wideextending
- more wideranging
- more widereaching
- more widestretching
- most far extending
- most far going
- most far spread
- most far stretched
- most far-extending
- most far-going
- most far-spread
- most far-stretched
- most fargoing
- most farspread
- most farstretched
- most wide extending
- most wide ranging
- most wide reaching
- most wide stretching
- most wide-extending
- most wide-ranging
- most wide-reaching
- most wide-stretching
- most wideextending
- most wideranging
- most widereaching
- most widestretching
- wide extending
- wide ranging
- wide reaching
- wide stretching
- wide-extending
- wideextending
- widely distributed
- wideranging
- widereaching
- widestretching
• far-off
- at a distance
- at distance
- far off
• faraway
- beyond horizon
- beyond the horizon
- far removed
- far-removed
- farremoved
- more far-removed
- most far removed
- most far-removed
- most farremoved
- pre occupied
- pre-occupied
- preoccupied
- quite a ways
- quite ways
- well away
• having little effect on senses
- faint
• inaccessible
- be yond
- be-yond
- in accessible
- in surmountable
- in-accessible
- in-surmountable
- more beyond
- more ungettable
- more unobtainable
- most beyond
- most unachievable
- most ungettable
- most unobtainable
- not at hand
- not hand
- un achievable
- un attainable
- un available
- un feasible
- un obtainable
- un realizable
- un workable
- un-achievable
- un-attainable
- un-available
- un-feasible
- un-gettable
- un-obtainable
- un-realizable
- un-workable
- unachievable
- ungettable
- unobtainable
- unreachable
• noun
- That
- absolute
- aloof
- antisocial
- back
- complete
- contrasting
- different
- disjoined
- disparate
- dissimilar
- divorced
- downright
- fake
- frosty
- generous
- genuine
- incomparable
- mock
- natural
- nonnatural
- nonrealistic
- off
- opposite
- other
- out-and-out
- outright
- outside
- perfect
- phony
- pure
- real
- remoter
- reserved
- right
- separated
- sham
- standoffish
- true
- unalike
- unlike
- unmatched
- unnatural
- unqualified
- unrealistic
- unsociable
- withdrawn
• obscure
- in conspicuous
- in glorious
- in visible
- in-conspicuous
- in-glorious
- in-visible
- more unhonored
- more unnoted
- most orphic
- most unhonored
- orphic
- un disclosed
- un distinguished
- un honored
- un known
- un noted
- un seen
- un sung
- un-disclosed
- un-distinguished
- un-honored
- un-important
- un-known
- un-noted
- un-sung
- unheard of
- unheardof
- unhonored
- unnoted
• out of reach
- inaccessible
• out of the way
- off beaten track
- off the beaten track
- out of way
- out the way
- out way
• remote
- dis interested
- dis-interested
- god knows where
- god-knows-where
- in a backwater
- in appropriate
- in backwater
- in considerable
- in-appropriate
- in-considerable
- more boondocks
- more frontier
- more god knows where
- more god-knows-where
- more nongermane
- more off lying
- more off-lying
- more offlying
- most boondocks
- most frontier
- most god knows where
- most god-knows-where
- most nongermane
- most off lying
- most off-lying
- most offlying
- non germane
- non-germane
- nongermane
- off beaten path
- off lying
- off-lying
- offlying
- out side
- putting airs
- re mote
- re-mote
- stuck up
- un discovered
- un interested
- un settled
- un-communicative
- un-connected
- un-discovered
- un-interested
- un-settled
• secluded
- out of the way
• uncharted
- little known
- more unmapped
- most unmapped
- un charted
- un explored
- un identified
- un-charted
- un-identified
- un-mapped
- unmapped
• unknown
- uncharted
• unreachable
- beyond reach
- in-approachable
- un reachable
- un-reachable
• widespread
- far-flung
adv.
• a great distance away
- afar
• afar
- far away
• faraway
- yonder
• yonder
- yon
v.
• noun
- BUG OFF
- Begone
- bail
- bail out
- blench
- bug out
- bugger off
- clear off
- clear out
- depart
- flinch
- get off
- pull out
- push off
- push on
- quail
- radiate
- recoil
- scarper
- shrink
- squinch
- take off
- vamoose
- walk out
- wince
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Usage examples for Near

It was found in Goucher Hall near the mummy case.

"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"

Charles Weathers Bump

I brought over the table and put it in its place near the fire.

"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"

Alexander Irvine

It is hard-so hard that I came near staying at home this morning.

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

Famous quotes with Near

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

Cleveland Abbe
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

George Ade
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus
I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

Josef Albers
When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

Kirstie Alley

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