When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
Source: tatoeba (1815)
Nearly
//ˈnɪəlɪ//
Synonyms for "nearly" (92 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (46)
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Synonyms
2 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
88 translations across 55 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- gati adv (almost, but not quite)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σχεδόν adv (almost, but not quite)
Arabic
1 entries- تَقْرِيبًا adv (almost, but not quite)
Armenian
2 entries- գրեթե adv (almost, but not quite)
- համարյա adv (almost, but not quite)
Belarusian
1 entries- ама́ль adv (almost, but not quite)
Bengali
1 entries- নাগাদ adv (almost, but not quite)
Bulgarian
1 entries- почти́ adv (almost, but not quite)
Catalan
2 entries- gairebé adv (almost, but not quite)
- quasi adv (almost, but not quite)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎾᎥᏂᎨᏍᏗ adv (almost, but not quite)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 差不多 adv (almost, but not quite)
- 幾乎 /几乎 adv (almost, but not quite)
Czech
3 entries- málem adv (almost, but not quite)
- skoro adv (almost, but not quite)
- téměř adv (almost, but not quite)
Dutch
1 entries- bijna adv (almost, but not quite)
Esperanto
1 entries- preskaŭ adv (almost, but not quite)
Estonian
1 entries- peaaegu adv (almost, but not quite)
Finnish
4 entries- liki adv (almost, but not quite)
- lähes adv (almost, but not quite)
- melkein adv (almost, but not quite)
- miltei adv (almost, but not quite)
French
1 entries- presque adv (almost, but not quite)
Georgian
2 entries- თითქმის adv (almost, but not quite)
- ლამის adv (almost, but not quite)
German
2 entries- beinahe adv (almost, but not quite)
- fast adv (almost, but not quite)
Greek
2 entries- παραλίγο adv (almost, but not quite)
- σχεδόν adv (almost, but not quite)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- prèske adv (almost, but not quite)
Hebrew
1 entries- כִּמְעַט adv (almost, but not quite)
Hindi
1 entries- लगभग adv (almost, but not quite)
Hungarian
1 entries- majdnem adv (almost, but not quite)
Irish
3 entries- beagnach adv (almost, but not quite)
- de chóir adv (almost, but not quite)
- suas le adv (almost, but not quite)
Italian
3 entries- circa adv (almost, but not quite)
- praticamente adv (almost, but not quite)
- quasi adv (almost, but not quite)
Japanese
2 entries- 大方 adv (almost, but not quite)
- 殆ど adv (almost, but not quite)
Korean
1 entries- 거의 adv (almost, but not quite)
Latin
3 entries- ferē adv (almost, but not quite)
- paene adv (almost, but not quite)
- prope adv (almost, but not quite)
Latvian
1 entries- gandrīz adv (almost, but not quite)
Lithuanian
1 entries- beveik adv (almost, but not quite)
Macedonian
2 entries- ре́чиси adv (almost, but not quite)
- ско́ро adv (almost, but not quite)
Maltese
1 entries- kważi adv (almost, but not quite)
Māori
2 entries- kainamu adv (almost, but not quite)
- tōtahi adv (almost, but not quite)
Navajo
1 entries- kʼasdą́ą́ʼ adv (almost, but not quite)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- bortimot adv (almost, but not quite)
- nesten adv (almost, but not quite)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- bortimot adv (almost, but not quite)
- nesten adv (almost, but not quite)
Old English
1 entries- fornēah adv (almost, but not quite)
Persian
1 entries- تقریباً adv (almost, but not quite)
Polish
3 entries- bez mała adv (almost, but not quite)
- blisko adv (almost, but not quite)
- prawie adv (almost, but not quite)
Portuguese
1 entries- quase adv (almost, but not quite)
Quechua
1 entries- yaqa adv (almost, but not quite)
Russian
4 entries- о́коло adv (almost, but not quite)
- почти́ adv (almost, but not quite)
- приблизи́тельно adv (almost, but not quite)
- чуть не adv (almost, but not quite)
Sanskrit
1 entries- नोद् adv (almost, but not quite)
Scots
1 entries- maistly adv (almost, but not quite)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- skòro adv (almost, but not quite)
- ско̀ро adv (almost, but not quite)
Slovak
2 entries- skoro adv (almost, but not quite)
- takmer adv (almost, but not quite)
Slovene
1 entries- skôraj adv (almost, but not quite)
Spanish
1 entries- casi adv (almost, but not quite)
Swedish
2 entries- nästan adv (almost, but not quite)
- uppemot adv (almost, but not quite)
Thai
1 entries- เกือบจะ adv (almost, but not quite)
Turkish
2 entries- hemen hemen adv (almost, but not quite)
- neredeyse adv (almost, but not quite)
Tày
1 entries- ái adv (almost, but not quite)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ма́йже adv (almost, but not quite)
- сливе́ adv (almost, but not quite)
Vietnamese
2 entries- gần adv (almost, but not quite)
- gần như adv (almost, but not quite)
Yiddish
1 entries- שיער adv (almost, but not quite)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
You nearly poked me in the eye with your pencil.
Source: tatoeba (16396)
I nearly choked on a fishbone.
Source: tatoeba (19357)
I was nearly run over by a car.
Source: tatoeba (20713)
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