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. Vladimir Kozhin:

   The talks are already over, everything is already decided - both the timeframe and the sums, i hope that in the nearest future an agreement will be signed on breaking the contract, and then the sum that France will pay us will be announced.

2. Thomas Carlyle:

   Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

3. Rabindranath Tagore:

   We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

4. 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.

5. 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.