Well-nigh

//ˌwɛlˈnaɪ//

Synonyms for "well-nigh" (58 found)

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Closest matches (12)

Adverb(9 words)

about all but almost approaching approximately around as good as as near as makes no difference by and large

Adverb(2 words)

about almost

approximately

Strong matches (17)

Adverb(13 words)

circa close close to essentially for all practical purposes fornigh give or take imprecisely ish just about kind of loosely more or less

closely hard much

Adverb(1 words)

most

Related words (29)

Adverb(24 words)

near near as damn it nearabout nearly next to nigh nigh on nighwhat not quite odd or so plus or minus practically pretty much roughly roundly say some sort of tantamount to

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thereabout virtually well-near ±

Adverb(4 words)

near nearly nigh virtually

round

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Related terms

3 entries

fornigh nigh nigh on

Translations

13 translations across 11 languages.

Bulgarian

1 entries

почти adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

几乎 adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Czech

1 entries

takřka adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Danish

1 entries

næsten adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Esperanto

1 entries

preskaŭ adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

French

2 entries

presque adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)
quasiment adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

German

2 entries

beinahe adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)
nahezu adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Occitan

1 entries

quasi adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Polish

1 entries

prawie adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Scots

1 entries

maistlins adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Spanish

1 entries

casi adv (almost, nearly — see also almost, nearly)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation.

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The ſame ſo ſore annoyed has the Knight, / That welnigh choked with the deadly ſtinke, / His forces faile, ne can no lenger fight.

Source: wiktionary

The household cock had given his first summons, and the night was well nigh spent.

Source: wiktionary

[…] Sindbad the Seaman continued:—So when I escaped drowning and reached the island which afforded me fruit to eat and water to drink, I returned thanks to the Most High and glorified Him; after which I sat till nightfall, hearing no voice and seeing none inhabitant. Then I lay down, well-nigh dead for travail and trouble and terror, and slept without surcease till morning, […]

Source: wiktionary

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