nearer and nearer in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "further and further"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "nearer and nearer (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English reduplicated coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Reduplicated coordinated pairs",
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Reduplications",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "continually getting closer"
      ],
      "id": "en-nearer_and_nearer-en-adv-2xjo-jCC",
      "links": [
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "continually getting closer",
          "word": "nes nes"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "continually getting closer",
          "word": "nesnes"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nearer and nearer"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "further and further"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "nearer and nearer (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English reduplicated coordinated pairs",
        "English uncomparable adverbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Welsh translations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "continually getting closer"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "continually getting closer",
      "word": "nes nes"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "continually getting closer",
      "word": "nesnes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nearer and nearer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (1c4b89b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"nearer and nearer" meaning in English

Adverb