close together
Barely any gap
Close together describes things positioned near each other with little space between them.
The phrase emphasizes proximity or density: The houses were built close together, Plant the seeds close together.
It can also describe timing: The two events occurred close together.
Figuratively, people who are close together share a strong bond or connection.
- huddledCrowded closely together
- shoulder to shoulderAdjacent and aligned laterally
- abuttingSharing a common border
- besideAdjacent to
- adjacentDirectly next to
right next door · cheek by jowl · cheek to cheek · elbow-to-elbow · contiguous · touching · side by side · crammed · sardined · snug · nestled · bunched · conjoined · packed · clustered · thick as thieves · joined at the hip · back-to-back
- crowdedcrowded, jam-packed, packed like sardines, crammed, jammed
close togetherspaced out
Inattentive, mentally elsewhere
spread out · scattered · dispersed · poles apart · miles apart
close togetherinfrequent
Happening only occasionally
sporadic · staggered · spread out · intermittent · spaced out
close, together, closet, cluster, closed, exclude, exclusive, closer, enclose