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UK
/nˈiəli/
]
[ US /ˈnɪɹɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈnɪɹɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a close manner
the two phenomena are intimately connected
the person most nearly concerned -
(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
the job is (just) about done
I was near exhausted by the run
virtually all the parties signed the contract
most everyone agrees
we're almost finished
the car all but ran her down
talked for nigh onto 2 hours
the recording is well-nigh perfect
he nearly fainted
the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded
How To Use nearly In A Sentence
- He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- He nearly knocked over a couple of pop fans en route. The Sun
- Let the term geoid apply to the natural irregular surface of the earth and the term spheroid to the ideal regular sur - face of the geodesist which coincides nearly with sealevel and is necessarily a level surface. Transactions - American Philosophical Society
- Rambling, no voice projection, no point to their speech, nearly Dadaist slides. Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s PowerPoint Problem
- She nearly gasped out loud at this insult.
- The next day Tredias' arm was very nearly healed and needed only the support of a sling.
- A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
- John Terry booked after a rash challenge which nearly lost Holdsworth his head.