nearest

[nearest]

(superlative of `near'' or `close'') within the shortest distance; "that was the time he came nearest to death"

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Adjective S.
(superlative of `near'' or `nigh'') most near

Adverb
(superlative of `near'' or `close'') within the shortest distance; "that was the time he came nearest to death"


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Usage Examples

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

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

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

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