at close range

1. 1.

   very close

   “without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up”

   “even firing at close range he missed”

   Synonymsclose up

Questions about at close range

What does at close range mean?

at close range means "very close".

What is another word for at close range?

Close synonyms include close up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is at close range a common word?

at close range is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.