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[ UK /nˈi‍əli/ ]
[ US /ˈnɪɹɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a close manner
    the two phenomena are intimately connected
    the person most nearly concerned
  2. (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

  • 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
  • He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
  • 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
  • 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
  • Indianapolis beat out nearly 100 other cities as the site for a huge United Airlines maintenance center.
  • He nearly knocked over a couple of pop fans en route. The Sun
  • 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.
  • Rambling, no voice projection, no point to their speech, nearly Dadaist slides. Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s PowerPoint Problem
  • He nearly had a heart attack himself. Times, Sunday Times
  • The show travels to nearly 200 cities around the world annually with the beauty, elegance, glamour and energy of a Broadway show.
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