Near

Adjective

 * 1)  physically close.
 * 2)  approaching
 * The end is near.
 * 1) approximate, almost
 * The two words are near synonyms.

Antonyms

 * remote

Derived terms

 * near-death experience
 * near-Earth object
 * Near East
 * near infrared


 * near-minimal pair
 * near miss
 * near the knuckle
 * nearly
 * nearness

Adverb

 * 1) Having a small intervening distance with regard to something.
 * I'm near sighted.
 * 1)  nearly
 * 2) * 1666 Samuel Pepys Diary and Correspondence (1867)
 * ...he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France....
 * 1) * 1825 David Hume, Tobias George Smollett The History of England p. 263
 * Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.
 * 1) * 2003 Owen Parry Honor's Kingdom p. 365
 * Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.
 * 1) * 2004 Jimmy Buffett A Salty Piece of Land p. 315, p. 35
 * "I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket.
 * 1) * 2006 Juliet Marillier The Dark Mirror p. 377
 * The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark.

Derived terms

 * nearsighted

Preposition

 * 1) close to, in close proximity to.
 * 2) * 1820 Mary Shelley, Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot:
 * He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.
 * 1) * 1843 Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug:
 * Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet ...
 * 1) * 1897 H. G. Wells, The Star:
 * The star grew--it grew with a terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until it had turned night into a second day.
 * 1) * 1927 H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space:
 * It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.
 * 1) close to in time.
 * The voyage was near completion.

Antonyms

 * far from

Verb

 * 1) To decrease the distance to something.

Thesaurus
about, about to be, abutting, accost, adjacent, adjoining, advance, advancing, all but, almost, along toward, already in sight, among, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, anticipate, ape, appear like, approach, approaching, appropinquate, approximate, approximating, approximative, arm-in-arm, around, as good as, aside, at, at close quarters, at hand, at next hand, attached, attracted to, avaricious, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be in store, be like, be redolent of, be to be, be to come, bear down on, bear down upon, bear resemblance, bear up, beside, bordering on, brew, brewing, bring to mind, burning, by, call to mind, call up, cheap, cheek-by-jowl, circa, circumscribed, close, close about, close at hand, close by, close in, close to, close upon, close with, close-by, close-fitting, closefisted, closely, come, come close, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come up, coming, comparable, compare with, confined, confront, connected, constricted, contiguous, converge, copy, correspond, counterclockwise, counterfeit, cramp, cramped, crowded, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, drawn to, encounter, equal, evoke, expect, face, familiar, fast by, favor, follow, foresee, foretell, forthcome, forthcoming, from, future, gain upon, gather, gathering, going to happen, hairbreadth, hand and glove, hand-in-hand, hang over, hard, hard by, hard on, hardfisted, hereabout, hereabouts, homologous, hope, hot, hover, illiberal, imitate, immediate, imminent, impend, impendent, impending, in, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in spitting distance, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, incapacious, incommodious, inseparable, instant, intimate, isthmian, isthmic, just about, larboard, lean towards, left, left-hand, left-wing, left-wingish, levorotatory, liberal, lie ahead, lie over, like, limited, look for, look forward to, look like, loom, looming, lower, lowering, lurking, match, meager, mean, menace, menacing, mimic, mirror, miserly, much at one, much the same, narrow, narrow the gap, near at hand, near the mark, near to, near upon, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nearing, nearish, nearly, nearly reproduce, nearly the same, next door to, next to, niggardly, nigh, nigh about, nighhand, nighish, not far, not far from, not quite, not tell apart, on, on the horizon, oncoming, only a step, overhang, overhanging, parallel, parsimonious, partake of, penny-pinching, penurious, pinchfisted, pinching, plan, plot, port, predict, preparing, pretty near, project, prophesy, propinque, proximal, proximate, quasi, radical, relatable, related, relative, remind one of, resemble, restricted, rival, round, same but different, save-all, savor of, scant, scanty, seem like, selfish, side-by-side, sidle up to, similar, simulate, sinister, sinistral, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular, sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, slender, smack of, sound like, stack up with, step up, stingy, strait, suggest, take after, that will be, thereabout, thereabouts, thick, thick as thieves, threaten, threatening, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, to, to come, touch, toward, ungenerous, upcoming, verge on, verging on, verging upon, vicinal, virtually, waiting, warm, well-nigh, with, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach, within sight

Etymology
From nere:, ner:, from  near:, influenced by  nær:, both originating from, comparative of the adverb. Cognate with niar:,  nahor:.

Adjective

 * Arabic: قريب
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Belarusian: блізкі
 * Bulgarian: близък
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 近
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hindi: नज़दीक
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skammt
 * Ido: proxim
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 近い
 * Korean: 가깝다
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: نزیک


 * Latin:
 * Old English:
 * Persian: نزدیک
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dlùth
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: близак
 * Roman: blizak
 * Slovak: blízky
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: దగ్గర (daggara)
 * Ukrainian: близький
 * Urdu: نزدیک
 * Venetian: vissin
 * Vietnamese:

Adverb

 * Arabic: قريب
 * Basque: hur
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 近
 * Dutch: nabij, bij, naverwant, dierbaar
 * Finnish:, lähettyvillä
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: közel
 * Ido: apud


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 近い
 * Korean: 가까이
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: близко
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: దగ్గరగా (daggaragaa), దగ్గరగుట
 * Vietnamese:

Preposition

 * Arabic: قرب, عند, قريب
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 靠近, 接近, 旁邊, 旁边
 * Czech: u (+gen)
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: neben, Nähe
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: पास, नज़दीक
 * Irish: in aice le
 * Italian: vicino a


 * Japanese: 近く
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Old English:
 * Persian: نزدیک, کنار
 * Polish: blisko
 * Russian: рядом, около , близко , возле, у
 * Spanish: cerca de
 * Telugu: దగ్గర (daggara), అన్యోన్యము
 * Thai: ใกล้
 * Urdu: پاس, نزدیک
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: nilü

Verb

 * Armenian:
 * Croatian: bližiti, približavati
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: naderen, dichterbijkomen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 近付く
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: نزیک بوونه‌وه
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,

Anagrams

 * Arne, earn, nare, Nera