Synonyms:
nearest, nighest, closest
Meaning: (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance; "that was the time he came nearest to death"
Usage examples
Death and Pity were his closest friends.
Baxter had been Feldman's closest friend in the Lobby.
The closest parallelism may be detected in its composition of themes.
The salary was small, and we still had to practise the closest economy.
In the pocket closest to his throbbing heart was a single ticket to Belpher.
Representative Volstead, of Minnesota, Republican, came the closest of all to real courage in his protest:-
The other house is Squerryes Court, belonging then and now to the Warde family, the Wolfes' closest friends.
And it takes the closest kind of community team-work in the newt colony to get things anywhere near cleaned up by nightfall.
It was that quiet, negative, courteous, inbred pride, which only the closest observation could detect; which no ordinary observers ever detected at all.
She and Mr. van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking-over.