| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Not far from another in space, time, or relation: adjacent, close, contiguous, near, nearby, nigh, proximate. Idioms: at hand, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, within hailing distance. See NEAR. 2. Marked by the absence of any intervention: direct, firsthand, primary. See CLEAR, NEAR. 3. Occurring at once: instant, instantaneous. See TIME.
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