Definition of nearer

"nearer" in the adjective sense

1. near, close, nigh

not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances

"near neighbors"

"in the near future"

"they are near equals"

"his nearest approach to success"

"a very near thing"

"a near hit by the bomb"

"she was near tears"

"she was close to tears"

"had a close call"

2. near, nigh

being on the left side

"the near or nigh horse is the one on the left"

"the animal's left side is its near or nigh side"

3. near

closely resembling the genuine article

"near beer"

"a dress of near satin"

4. cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny

giving or spending with reluctance

"our cheeseparing administration"

"very close (or near) with his money"

"a penny-pinching miserly old man"

5. dear, good, near

with or in a close or intimate relationship

"a good friend"

"my sisters and brothers are near and dear"

6. approximate, near

very close in resemblance

"sketched in an approximate likeness"

"a near likeness"

"nearer" in the adverb sense

1. nearer, nigher, closer

comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance

"come closer, my dear!"

"they drew nearer"

"getting nearer to the true explanation"

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Quotations for nearer

My tunic is nearer than my cloak. [ Plaut ]

The shirt is nearer than the coat. [ Proverb ]

And he who serves his brother best,
Gets nearer God than all the rest.

Sweet souls around us watch us still,
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]

Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin. [ Proverb ]

While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. [ Young ]

The nearer the church, the further from God. [ Proverb ]

The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. [ Pope ]

Each moment of life is one step nearer death. [ Corneille ]

My teeth are nearer to me than my kindred is. [ Proverb ]

The more years you have, the nearer the grave. [ Proverb ]

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. [ Plato ]

Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape,
And ivy berry, choose; and still depart
From death to death thro' life and life, and find
Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought
Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite,
But this main miracle, that thou art thou,
With power on thine own act and on the world. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. [ Socrates ]

A woman, and by so much nearer heaven as that makes one. [ Beecher ]

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. [ Wordsworth ]

The devil is never nearer, than when we are talking of him. [ Proverb ]

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. [ Bruyere ]

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. [ Hare ]

Men are probably nearer to the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. [ Thoreau ]

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand. [ Owen Feltham ]

Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul. [ Miguel Molinos ]

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. [ Landor ]

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. [ Victor Hugo ]

The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. [ Richter ]

Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end? [ Cicero ]

The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary. [ Emerson ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. [ Addison ]

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed, is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed, would be nearer the truth. [ Chapin ]

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. [ Chesterfield ]

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]

nearer in Scrabble®

The word nearer is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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nearer in Words With Friends™

The word nearer is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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