Difference between Skinny and Near

What is the difference between Skinny and Near?

Skinny as an adjective is having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful. while Near as an adjective is physically close.

Skinny

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One who is skinny, A skinny person The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.

Example sentence: Honestly, maybe I'm not as skinny as I've been at some point in my life, but I like how I look! You look at Beyonce, at Rihanna, at Jennifer Lopez and they have curves you can grab onto.

Near

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To decrease the distance to something.

Part of speech: preposition

Definition: close to, in close proximity to.close to in time.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: physically close.approachingapproximate, almost

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Having a small intervening distance with regard to something.nearly

Example sentence: See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

We hope you now know whether to use Skinny or Near in your sentence.

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