nearly
IPA: nˈɪrɫi
adverb
- In close approximation; almost, virtually.
- (now rare) With great scrutiny; carefully.
- With close relation; intimately.
- Closely, in close proximity.
- Stingily.
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Examples of "nearly" in Sentences
- The man nearly fell on the ice.
- The company's profits nearly quadruple.
- The horse nearly slipped in the process.
- The IT field is not nearly so fastidious.
- In that epic, the hero is nearly flawless.
- The police reacted nearly instantaneously.
- The economy in Gratis is nearly nonexistent.
- I'm not nearly so sanguine about a lack of chicanery.
- A conflagration nearly destroyed the village in 1893.
- It's nearly simultaneous with the ignition of the engines.
- You fancy, perhaps, I have not got a friend, and you are nearly right -- _nearly_, but not altogether.
- In sentencing Andrew Warren, 43, to a term nearly double what was recommended under federal guidelines, U.S. District Judge Ellen S.
- With a perfectly good conductor and a good battery, nearly all the electricity is passed, i.e. _nearly all_ the chemical power becomes transferable, even with a single pair of plates (807.).
- Here is a fact, which I this very minute take from the mouth of a young coloured man, who has been to school in this state (Massachusetts) nearly nine years, and who knows grammar this day, _nearly_ as well as he did the day he first entered the school-house, under a white master.
- In _A. frostiana_ and the pale forms of the species the spores are nearly globose or oval, rarely with a tendency to become elliptical, but _the content is quite constantly finely granular_, while the spores of _A. cothurnata_ are perhaps more constantly globose or nearly so, but the spore is _nearly filled with a highly refractive oil globule or "nucleus."