Word Type

Verb

Adjective

Noun

Adjective

Adverb

Adverb

Proper Noun

The word "close" can be used as verb, adjective, noun, adjective, adverb, adverb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

aloof begin beginning distant distant extend far far away ope open open pen

Derived Terms

autoclose bring to a close case closed closable close as wax close at hand close borough close call close captioning close chair close combat close down close encounter close enough close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades close fertilization close for press close helm close helmet close in close in on close in upon close of business close of play close off close on the heels of close one close one eye close one's doors close one's ears close one's eyes close one's mind close only counts in horseshoes close only counts in horseshoes and darts close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades close order close out close protection close quarter close quarters close range close ranks close reach close reading close round close season close shave close the book on close the books close the door close the door on close the face close the loop close the range close the stable door after the horse has bolted close thing close time close to close to home close to one's heart close to one's vest close to someone's heart close to the bone close to the metal close to the vest close to the wind close together close up close with close with a buck close, but no cigar close-bodied close-coupled close-cropped close-ended question close-fights close-fisted close-fitting close-hauled close-knit close-mid close-minded close-packed close-packing close-quarter close-range close-reefed close-run close-serried close-set close-stool close-tiled close-toed close-tongued close-up close-up close-winded closeable closefisted closehanded closeish closely closemouthed closeness closeout closereefed closestool come to a close couple-close cut it close disclose draw to a close enclose exclosure fly too close to the sun foreclose garden close hit too close to home in close neighbourhood interclose keep a close watch keep one's cards close to one's chest letters close misclose nonclose number close overclose play it close to the hip reclose sail close to the wind sell past the close soft-close subclose this close too close for comfort too close to call too close to the sun ultraclose unclose up a close up close upclose when one door closes, another opens

Distinct From

distant far open

Etymologically Related To

beclose foreclose

Context

ball game baseball british computing ireland england scotland legal linguistics marketing music phonetics physical pitching scotland social surveying weather

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

approach bar barricade block block off block up blockade break break off cease change state come near come on complete discontinue displace draw close draw near end end ending engage fill finish finish finishing give up go up join lay off move near prosecute pursue quit section stop subdivision terminate trade turn

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

autoclose this close thisclose ultra-close

Manner Of

approach barricade change state complete end fill join move prosecute trade

Related Terms

clause

Related Terms

action adjective alley also also near application around bar being being tight cadence cases cathedral close close call close shave closed clothes conclusion confine connection database dead end description distance door doors doors cases double down enclose encompass end ending far field file gather grapple humid interest lassitude like like clothes location music near near to nearby nearness open opening overhang polygon proximity relative sale shut shut door shutting shutting down strain street tenement tight together togetherness vector very very near wind window wrestling you

Similar Terms

accurate adjacent adpressed adpressed ambient ambient appressed approximate approximate at hand at hand boon boon buddy buddy buddy-buddy careful careful chummy circumferent circumferent close at hand close at hand close hauled close set close set close together close together close-hauled close-knit close-set closely knit closely knit confidential confidential confined contiguous contiguous cosy cozy cozy dear dear encompassing enveloping enveloping equal equal familiar familiar fine fine good hand to hand hand-to-hand hot immediate imminent impendent impending incommunicative intimate intimate juxtaposed juxtaposed near nearby nestled next private private proximate proximate restrained restrained scalelike scalelike short short shut side by side side by side snuggled snuggled stingy surrounding thick tight uncommunicative ungenerous unventilated walk to walk-to walking warm

Synonym Network

airless close by close fitting close off close out closely closemouthed conclude conclusion confining cul de sac end faithful finale high intimate muggy narrow near nearby penny pinching shut stopping point

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.