Synonyms for Nearer
near·er

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1. nearer, nigher, closeradverb

   (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance

   "come closer, my dear!"; "they drew nearer"; "getting nearer to the true explanation"

   Synonyms:
   nearer, closer, nigher

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1. List of paraphrases for "nearer":

   nearest, closest, closer

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1. Plato:

   Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

2. Doreen Bakeiha:

   Many people don't have time to seek health services so we are trying to pull the services nearer to the people.

3. Cicero:

   Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journeys end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

4. Johann von Goethe:

   Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.

5. Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville:

   Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known.