ADVERB
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(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 well-nigh In A Sentence
- It was well-nigh impossible for him to convince her that he was right.
- He points out that in Bangalore, it is well-nigh impossible to get a hotel room.
- But the Celbridge attack was finding it well-nigh impossible to break down their opponents' defence with the defence denying them even a single score from play throughout that second half.
- Sometimes when he opened his mouth to its utmost capacity he felt the joints slip and was compelled to put down the cornbread, or jole and greens, or the piece of 'possum he was eating, while his mouth remained a fixed abyss until the doctor came and restored it to a natural position by an exertion of muscular power that would have well-nigh lifted an ox. Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
- These expedients for raising money displayed ‘well-nigh diabolical ingenuity’.
- Finding a rug that's just the colour, size and price you want can be well-nigh impossible.
- For him, our country is well-nigh as barren; unicorn, lindworm, jack-o'-dance, all such game has become rare. The Unicorn Trade
- the recording is well-nigh perfect
- Here the dogs were well-nigh useless, and both they and the men were tried excessively by the roughness of the way. Chapter IV
- Thus the complacent, musing upper thought in the mind and on the lips of the proletary as he wended his way through the quiet and well-nigh deserted streets to the older part of the town. The Price