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Synonyms: abutting across the street adjacent adjoining approaching around the corner at hand contiguous convenient give or take a little handy hard by immediate imminent impending in spitting distance in the ball park near-at-hand nearest nearly neighboring next nigh proximate under one’s nose warm

Antonyms: away beyond detached far faraway

Synonyms: circumscribed close-grained compact confined confining congested consolidated cropped crowded firm impenetrable impermeable jam-packed narrow packed restricted short solid substantial thick tight

Antonyms: loose open uncramped

Synonyms: conscientious exact faithful lifelike literal resembling similar strict

Antonyms: far imprecise inaccurate

Synonyms: attached buddy-buddy chummy confidential cozy with dear devoted familiar inseparable kissing cousins loving making it with on top of each other palsywalsy private related thick thick as thieves thick with

Antonyms: unfriendly

Synonyms: airless breathless choky confined fusty heavy moldy motionless muggy musty stagnant stale stale-smelling sticky stifling stuffy suffocating sultry sweltering sweltry thick tight uncomfortable unventilated

Antonyms: cool dry

Synonyms: buttoning one’s lip buttoning up clamming up close-lipped closemouthed hidden hush-hush mum’s the word on the q. t. private reticent retired secluded secretive silent taciturn tight chops tight-lipped uncommunicative unforthcoming zipping one’s lips

Antonyms: open unreserved

Synonyms: chintzy closefisted illiberal mean mingy miserly narrow niggardly parsimonious penny-pinching penurious skimpy skinflint tight tight-fisted ungenerous

Antonyms: generous giving

Synonyms: adjournment cease cessation completion conclusion culmination denouement desistance end finale finish period stop termination windup

Antonyms: beginning commencement opening start

Synonyms: bang bar block bolt button caulk choke clap clench clog confine congest cork dam exclude fasten fill lock occlude plug prevent passage put to retard flow screen secure shut shut off shutter slam stopper stop up stuff turn off

Antonyms: open release unclose unplug unseal unstop

Synonyms: button down button up call it a day call off cap cease clear clinch conclude consummate culminate cut loose determine discontinue do drop the curtain end fold fold up halt pack it in put a lid on put to bed sew up shut down shutter terminate ultimate wind down wind up wrap up

Antonyms: begin continue not finish open start

Synonyms: agree bind chain coalesce come together connect couple encounter fuse grapple inclose meet put together tie tie up

Antonyms: disjoin disunite open