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Nearer vs Nearest - What's the difference?

nearer | nearest |

As adjectives the difference between nearer and nearest

is that nearer is less distant from (near) while nearest is closest to, (near).

As prepositions the difference between nearer and nearest

is that nearer is closer while nearest is closest to.

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

    • Anagrams

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    nearest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Closest to, (near).
  • * 1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), :
    • Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • closest to

    • Anagrams

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