nearness

/ˈnɪənəs/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈnɪənəs/

nearness

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

near - ness -> nearness

Myanmar meaning

(n) နီးကပ်ခြင်း။

Full entry

near /nÇǝ(r)/ adj (-er /'nÇǝrǝ(r)/,-est /'nÇǝrÇst/)

၁။ (နေရာ၊ အချိန်) နီး[သော]။ His house is very near. ❍ Where's the nearest bank? ❍The nearest house to ours is 2 miles away. ❍ Some of the nearer branches caught fire. ❍ We hope to move to Bath in the near future (ie very soon). ❍ NEXT
၂။ အ(နီး)…[သော]။ a 12-point lead over her nearest rival. သူနှင့်အနီးဆုံး ပြိုင်ဘက်ကို ၁၂ မှတ် ဖြတ်ထားပြီး ဦးဆောင်နေသည်။
၃။ (esp superlative) (အ)နီးစပ်(ဆုံး)[သော]။ This is the nearest colour we have in stock. ❍ the nearest equivalent to the model you want. ❍ He was the nearest thing to(ie the person most like) a father she had ever had. ❍ Five hundred would be a nearer estimate. See also ONO
၄။ (အမျိုး) အရင်းအချာဖြစ်သော။ the near relations of the deceased.
၅။ လုနီးပါး။ a near riot/tragedy ❍ reach near starvation ❍ a near impossibility/ certainty.
adv
၁။ နီးနီး။ နီးကပ်လျက်။ Lee found some shops quite near. ❍ Don't come any nearer or I'll shoot. ❍ Our final exams are drawing near. ❍ The threat of a rail strike moved a step nearer today.
၂။ (esp in compounds) လုနီးပါး။ a near-perfect performance ❍ a near-impregnable position ❍ near-certain success.
prep (also near to )
၁။ (က) အနီးတွင်။ အနားမှာ။ The supermarket is very near (to) the library. ❍ near the ltalian border ❍ She was sitting near ( to) the window. ❍ Bradford is near Leeds. (ခ) အချိန်နီးကပ်သော။ My birthday is very near Christmas. ❍ a nuclear power station near (to) the end of its working life.
၂။ (ကိန်း ဂဏန်း) နီးပါး။ report profits near to £10m ❍ Share prices are near their record high of last year.
၃။ လု နီးပါး။ လောက်နီးနီး။ a state near to death ❍ No one else comes near her in intellect.
၄။ ရင်းနှီးသည်။ နီးနီးကပ်ကပ်။ It's very difficult to get near him.
၅။ ~ sth/ doing sth ခါနီး။ လုနီး။ တော့မလို။ children near starvation ❍ She was near to tears (ie almost crying). ❍ We were near to being killed.
v …ခါနီးပြီ။ We were at last nearing the end of our journey. ❍ The project is nearing completion. ❍ She's nearing 40.
❏ as near as [IDM ] အနီးစပ်ဆုံး။ There were about 3000 people there, as near as I could judge.
 as near as damn it / dammit; as near as makes no difference [IDM ] (infml esp Brit ) ကွာလှရင် မဖြစ်စလောက်ပါ။ It will cost £350, or as near as dammit.
❏ the Near East n [sing] မြေထဲပင်လယ် အရှေ့ကမ်းခြေရှိ နိုင်ငံများ။
❏ nearer (to) prep ထက်ပိုနီးသည်။ နီးတော့မှ။ နီးနီး။ He's nearer 70 than 60. ❍ Go and sit nearer the fire. ❍ I'll think about it nearer the time. ❍ The company has cut its profit forecasts from around $ 11m to nearer $ 8m.
❏ nearest (to) prep မကွာ။ This colour is nearest to the original. ❍ John is nearest me in age.
❏ one's nearest and dearest [IDM ] (joc ) ချစ်လှစွာသော မိသားစု။ spend Christmas with one's nearest and dearest.
❏ near miss n
၁။ ပွတ်ကာသီကာလွဲခြင်း။ ကပ်လွဲခြင်း။ a near miss by two aircraft over southern England.
၂။ ပစ်မှတ်နှင့် သီသီလွဲသည့် ဗုံး (သို့) ကျည်။
❏ nearness n [U]: the moon's nearness to the earth ❍ the nearness of death.
❏ near-sighted adj (esp US ) = SHORT-SIGHTED
 not anywhere near/ nowhere near [IDM ] ရှိကိုမရှိ။ I've nowhere near enough money for the fare. ❍ There wasn't anywhere near enough food for all of us.
 so near and yet so far [IDM ] နီးရက်နဲ့ဝေး။
❏ to the nearest … [IDM ] (ရေတွက်၊ တိုင်းတာရာ၌) အများဆုံးကွာလှလျှင်။ budgeting to the nearest £ 100 for the cost of repairs ❍ The time is measured to the nearest 100th of a second.

More examples

A group of students were standing near the entrance.
The tornado destroyed two houses near Tulsa.
The shops are quite near.
I slept in the bed nearest the door.
They live in a small cottage 15 miles from the nearest village.
[near to] : Rosa moved a little nearer to the fire.
I got into the near side of the bed.
[near to] : Julian was near to panic as he suddenly realized that he was trapped.
People near to retirement need to know their pension funds are sufficient.
[near to doing something] : They are near to solving the puzzle.
There were rumours that the 66-year-old leader was near death.
It was nearer three than two o’clock when he finally arrived.
I had no intention of making any decision until much nearer the time.
The incident occurred near the end of the war.
[draw near] : The date of the election was drawing near.
What he’s saying now is near the truth, but it’s still not accurate.
[near to] : My feelings were nearer to despair than disappointment.
The temperature that day was near 30 degrees.
The loss was near 15 per cent for the year.
There was a lot of mist around because of the garden’s nearness to the river.

Synonyms

close to, by, next to, in close proximity to, in the vicinity of, in the neighborhood of, in front of, about, abreast, abutting, adjacent, adjoining, affecting, akin, all but, allied, almost, along toward, alongside, approach, approaching, approximal, approximate, around, at close quarters, at hand, attached, available, beside, border on, bordering, bordering on, burning, close, close at hand, close by, close range, close shave, close-at-hand, close-by, come close to, come up to, coming, comparative, connected, conterminous, contiguous, convenient, dear, draw near to, draw up to, earshot, expected, eyeshot, familiar, friendly, go up to, hair's breadth, handy, hard by, immediate, imminent, impending, in close proximity, in the neighborhood, in the offing, in the vicinity, intimate, just about, like, looming, near-at-hand, nearby, nearing, nearly, neighboring, next, next door, nigh, not far, not quite, not remote, on the verge of, practically, proximal, proximate, reach, ready, related, relative, resembling, side-by-side, similar to, spitting distance, stone's throw, to hand, touch on, touching, touching on, verge on, vincinal, virtually, warm, within stone's throw

Antonyms

afar, away, cool, deferred, detached, disconnected, distant, expired, far, far away, far from, far off, faraway, gone, later, leave, past, postponed, remote, separate, unfamiliar, unfriendly, unrelated, yon, yonder