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Dearer vs Nearer - What's the difference?

dearer | nearer |

As adjectives the difference between dearer and nearer

is that dearer is comparative of dear while nearer is less distant from. comparative of near.

As an adverb dearer

is comparative of dearly POS=adverb.

As a preposition nearer is

closer.

dearer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dear)
  • * 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, / A dearer birth than this his love had brought, / To march in ranks of better equipage: — William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXII

    • Adverb

    (head)
  • * Those lines that I before have writ do lie, / Even those that said I could not love you dearer — William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXV

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    nearer

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Less distant from. (near).
  • * 1897 , , :
    • The star grew—it grew with a terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until it had turned night into a second day.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Closer

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