Well-nigh

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Well-nigh \Well"-nigh`\, adv.
     Almost; nearly. --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  well-nigh
       adv : (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite
             accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for
             `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for
             `almost'; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was
             almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost
             finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly
             fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the
             recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the
             parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by
             the run"; "most everyone agrees" [syn: {about}, {just
             about}, {almost}, {most}, {all but}, {nearly}, {near},
             {nigh}, {virtually}]