up close
Adverb
Meaning
up close (comparative more up close, superlative most up close)
At very close range.
Viewed from up close, the image becomes a blur of coloured dots.
Alternative names
up-close
Examples
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon.
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value.