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ad. Almost but not quite: The coat nearly fits.

ad. In a close manner; intimately: a matter nearly affecting our interests.

ad. almost, but not quite; slightly short of

ad. intimately; closely

ad. In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.

Close at hand; in close proximity; at no great distance; hence, narrowly; with close scrutiny.

Closely: as, two persons nearly related.

Intimately; pressingly; with a close relation to one's interest or happiness.

Within a little of; almost: as, nearly twenty; the prisoner nearly escaped; nearly dead with cold.

With niggardliness or parsimony.

Exactly; precisely.

ad. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

ad. in a close manner

"You fancy, perhaps, I have not got a friend, and you are nearly right -- _nearly_, but not altogether."

closely    intimately    almost    about    toward    nighly   

austerely    cavalierly    clearly    dearly    merely    severely    sincerely    yearly   

fine-meshed    peach-bloom    thathis    semiprecious    neck-and-neck    contraterrene    preexistent    mythus    gorilla-like    1