(Of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but.
1In some States the size of the precincts made voting well-nigh impossible.
2In seven years the translation of the wilderness had been well-nigh complete.
3He laughed aloud in his mirth; for his anger was well-nigh gone.
4Thanks, father; indeed I was well-nigh reeling in my saddle with heat.
5The fascination which hangs around the latter has well-nigh obscured the former.
6The hill itself was well-nigh boundless in its capacities for juvenile occupation.
7In the old days buying clothes was well-nigh as irrevocable as marriage.
8And yet they had travelled well-nigh half the length of the bow.
9These qualities, though most noticeable in the leaders, were well-nigh universal traits.
10Dirk had heard them in the town, and returned home well-nigh weeping.
11The power of self-torture which the human heart possesses is well-nigh infinite.
12The words tumbled over each other, well-nigh incoherent in their fevered utterance.
13I had no time, sire; and London is well-nigh palsied with dismay.
14This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.
15In any case, it is well-nigh impossible to make rules for genius.
16It was well-nigh as large as the egg from which he came.
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