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- pronunciation:
- nir
li
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adverb |
| definition 1: |
If you are taking the bus to school and you are nearly there now, it means that you are almost there. You are very close to the school now. If you are watching a movie and it is nearly over, it means that the end of the movie is very close. The movie will end very soon.
Sasha was nearly finished with her test when the teacher said time was up.My mom said it was nearly dinnertime and we had to stop playing and come inside.Nauru is nearly the smallest country in the world. Only 11,000 people live there. The town where you live is probably bigger than that.- synonyms:
- almost, practically
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| definition 2: |
If you are not nearly ready to go, you are not close at all to being ready. You still have a lot of things to do. If a movie is not nearly as good as you expected, it is not even close to being as good as you expected. You are probably very disappointed.
The pizza was good where we went on vacation, but it wasn't nearly as good as the pizza we get at home.Go back to sleep! It's not nearly time to get up. |
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