Usually means: Very nearly, almost completely close.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word well nigh:

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  1. well nigh: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. well-nigh: Merriam-Webster
  3. well-nigh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. well-nigh: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. well-nigh, well-nigh: Collins English Dictionary
  6. well-nigh: Vocabulary.com
  7. Well-nigh, well-nigh: Wordnik
  8. well-nigh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. well-nigh, well nigh: Wiktionary
  10. well-nigh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. well-nigh: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. well-nigh: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. well-nigh, well nigh: Dictionary.com
  14. well-nigh: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. well-nigh: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Well-nigh: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. well-nigh: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. well-nigh: Rhymezone
  19. Well-nigh: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. well-nigh: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. well-nigh: FreeDictionary.org
  22. well-nigh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. well-nigh: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. well-nigh: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Well nigh)

▸ adverb:  Alternative spelling of well-nigh. [Almost, nearly.]

Similar:
nigh, near, virtually, just about, about, all but, almost, nearly, most, wellnigh, more...

Opposite:
far from, distant from, nowhere near
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Similar:
nigh, near, virtually, just about, about, all but, almost, nearly, most, wellnigh, more...

Opposite:
far from, distant from, nowhere near



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