Synonyms for nearest
near·est

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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. Rhiannon Giddens:

   I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.

2. Valeria Kolchic:

   Every time I hear a siren, I run to hide at the nearest subway station.

3. Fabo Feng:

   GJ 433 d is the nearest, widest and coldest Neptune-like planet ever detected.

4. Samuel Johnson:

   There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

5. Booker T. Washington:

   Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.