nearer

Less distant; comparative form of near: more near.

There are two pubs in the town; the nearer one is about a five-minute walk away.

Closer to.

I'd like to live nearer the office.

I’ll tell you nearer the time what to do.

I still seem to be no nearer a solution.

The star grew—it grew with a terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until it had turned night into a second day.