well-nigh🔊

Almost, nearly.

📑 Synonyms: fornigh just about virtually well-near

💬 Quotations

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

Walter Scott, The Antiquary (1816)

[…] 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, […]

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888)

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