almostadverb
uk/ˈɔːl.məʊst/us/ˈɑːl.moʊst/A2 nearly:
She's almost 30.
It was almost six o'clock when he left.
I almost wish I hadn't invited him.
It'll cost almost as much to repair it as it would to buy a new one.
Almost all the passengers on the ferry were French.
They'll almost certainly forget to do it.
The town was almost entirely destroyed during the war.
We were bitten by mosquitoes almost every night.
The boat sank almost immediately after it had struck the rock.
Most artists find it almost impossible to make a living from art alone.
More examples
- It took us almost a day to get here.
- The socialist party have been in office for almost ten years.
- Her paintings are almost photographic in their detail and accuracy.
- Tyres are almost always made of rubber.
- A car suddenly appeared from nowhere and almost made me fall off my pony.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Almost
- about
- as good as idiom
- as much as idiom
- be on the way to sth idiom
- border
- more
- more or less idiom
- much
- near
- near
- nearly
- next
- strike
- sub
- that was close! idiom
- the best/better part of idiom
- to/for all intents and purposes idiom
- up to
- virtual
- way
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