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Nearest vs Closest - What's the difference?

nearest | closest |

As adjectives the difference between nearest and closest

is that nearest is closest to, superlative of near while closest is superlative of close.

As a preposition nearest

is closest to.

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

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    closest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • ( close).
  • *
    • The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a ) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally

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