Thesaurus:almost
English
Adverb
Sense: very close to, but not quite
Synonyms
- all but
- almost
- as good as
- as near as makes no difference (colloquial)
- close to
- fornigh (Britain, dialectal)
- just about
- more or less
- near [⇒ thesaurus]
- near as damn it (colloquial)
- nearly
- next to
- nigh
- nigh on
- nighwhat (chiefly dialectal)
- not quite
- practically
- pretty much
- tantamount to
- well-nigh
- virtually
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Further reading
- “32. smallness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “almost” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.