nearly

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnɪəli/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈnɪːlɪj/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈnɪɹli/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• New-Zealand: /ˈniəli/
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• Scotland: /ˈniɾle/
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• Scotland: /-lɪ/
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• Scotland: /-li/
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• /ˈnɛːli/ East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)li
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• CMU ARPABET: N IH1 R L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From near + -ly. Cognate with Scots nerelie, neirlie (“nearly”). Compare also English nearling, nearlings.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: gati — almost, but not quite
• Arabic: تَقْرِيبًا (taqrīban) — almost, but not quite
• Armenian: համարյա (hamarya) — almost, but not quite
• Armenian: գրեթե (gretʻe) — almost, but not quite
• Belarusian: ама́ль (amálʹ) — almost, but not quite
• Bengali: নাগাদ (nagad) — almost, but not quite
• Bulgarian: почти́ (počtí) — almost, but not quite
• Catalan: gairebé — almost, but not quite
• Catalan: quasi — almost, but not quite
• Cherokee: ᎾᎥᏂᎨᏍᏗ (navnigesdi) — almost, but not quite
• Chinese Mandarin: 幾乎 /几乎 (jīhū) — almost, but not quite
• Chinese Mandarin: 差不多 (chàbuduō) — almost, but not quite
• Czech: málem — almost, but not quite
• Czech: skoro — almost, but not quite
• Czech: téměř — almost, but not quite
• Dutch: bijna — almost, but not quite
• Esperanto: preskaŭ — almost, but not quite
• Estonian: peaaegu — almost, but not quite
• Finnish: lähes — almost, but not quite
• Finnish: melkein — almost, but not quite
• Finnish: miltei — almost, but not quite
• Finnish: liki — almost, but not quite
• French: presque — almost, but not quite
• Georgian: თითქმის (titkmis) — almost, but not quite
• Georgian: ლამის (lamis) — almost, but not quite
• German: beinahe — almost, but not quite
• German: fast — almost, but not quite
• Greek: σχεδόν (schedón) — almost, but not quite
• Greek: παραλίγο (paralígo) — almost, but not quite
• Ancient Greek: σχεδόν (skhedón) — almost, but not quite
• Haitian Creole: prèske — almost, but not quite
• Hebrew: כִּמְעַט (kim'át) — almost, but not quite
• Hindi: लगभग (lagbhag) — almost, but not quite
• Hungarian: majdnem — almost, but not quite
• Irish: de chóir — almost, but not quite
• Irish: beagnach — almost, but not quite
• Irish: suas le — almost, but not quite
• Italian: quasi — almost, but not quite
• Italian: praticamente — almost, but not quite
• Italian: circa — almost, but not quite
• Japanese: 大方 (ōkata) — almost, but not quite
• Japanese: 殆ど (hotondo) — almost, but not quite
• Korean: 거의 (geoui) — almost, but not quite
• Latin: prope — almost, but not quite
• Latin: paene — almost, but not quite
• Latin: ferē — almost, but not quite
• Latvian: gandrīz — almost, but not quite
• Lithuanian: beveik — almost, but not quite
• Macedonian: ре́чиси (réčisi) — almost, but not quite
• Macedonian: ско́ро (skóro) — almost, but not quite
• Maltese: kważi — almost, but not quite
• Māori: tōtahi — almost, but not quite
• Māori: kainamu — almost, but not quite
• Navajo: kʼasdą́ą́ʼ — almost, but not quite
• Norwegian Bokmål: nesten — almost, but not quite
• Norwegian Bokmål: bortimot — almost, but not quite
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nesten — almost, but not quite
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bortimot — almost, but not quite
• Old English: fornēah — almost, but not quite
• Persian: تقریباً (taqriban) — almost, but not quite
• Polish: prawie — almost, but not quite
• Polish: bez mała — almost, but not quite
• Polish: blisko — almost, but not quite
• Portuguese: quase — almost, but not quite
• Quechua: yaqa — almost, but not quite
• Russian: почти́ (počtí) — almost, but not quite
• Russian: о́коло (ókolo) — almost, but not quite
• Russian: приблизи́тельно (priblizítelʹno) — almost, but not quite
• Russian: чуть не (čutʹ ne) — almost, but not quite
• Sanskrit: नोद् (nod) — almost, but not quite
• Scots: maistly — almost, but not quite
• Serbo-Croatian: ско̀ро — almost, but not quite
• Serbo-Croatian: skòro — almost, but not quite
• Slovak: takmer — almost, but not quite
• Slovak: skoro — almost, but not quite
• Slovene: skôraj — almost, but not quite
• Spanish: casi — almost, but not quite
• Swedish: nästan — almost, but not quite
• Swedish: uppemot — almost, but not quite
• Tày: ái — almost, but not quite
• Thai: เกือบจะ (gèuap jà) — almost, but not quite
• Turkish: neredeyse — almost, but not quite
• Turkish: hemen hemen — almost, but not quite
• Ukrainian: ма́йже (májže) — almost, but not quite
• Ukrainian: сливе́ (slyvé) — almost, but not quite
• Unami: kayahti — almost, but not quite
• Vietnamese: gần — almost, but not quite
• Vietnamese: gần như — almost, but not quite
• Yiddish: שיער (shyer) — almost, but not quite