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