Synonyms for nearest
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1. nearest, nighest, closestadverb

   (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance

   "that was the time he came nearest to death"

   Synonyms:
   nighest, closest

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1. List of paraphrases for "nearest":

   closest, closer, nearer, earliest

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1. Cato the Elder:

   I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

2. Cato the Elder:

   I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

3. Dieter Uchtdorf:

   If we interact with people with the sole expectation that they soon will don a white jumpsuit and ask for directions to the nearest baptismal font, were doing it wrong, some who come and see will, perhaps, never join the church; some will at a later time. That is their choice. But that doesnt change our love for them.

4. Manuel Fernández-Götz:

   In this way they help us to build a picture of how the mass of the population lived out their lives -- how close their nearest neighbours were and how they may have used the landscape for farming and grazing animals.

5. Gomez Cora:

   The Pumas say there is nothing nicer than playing at home and although this is not at home, we always play so far away, we don’t have any tournament in which we are hosts, the nearest is 14 hours by plane, playing near home will lift the lads because they say' I want to show what I do around the world because they never see it because I play far away', friends and family will be there and that can be a plus.