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Definitions of almost
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Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.
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Nearly; wellnigh.
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Nearly; very nearly; well- nigh; all but.
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Nearly; for the most part.
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Nearly; for the greatest part.
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( of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; ` near' is sometimes used informally for ` nearly' and ` most' is sometimes used informally for ` almost'; " the job is ( just) about done"; " the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; " we're almost finished"; " the car all but ran her down"; " he nearly fainted"; " talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; " the recording is well- nigh perfect"; " virtually all the parties signed the contract"; " I was near exhausted by the run"; " most everyone agrees"
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Approximately; very nearly.
Quotes of almost
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In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
– Robert T. Bakker -
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
– Henry Walter Bates -
And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present -day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
– Wilfred Burchett -
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
– Elliott Carter -
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
– Salvador Dali -
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
– Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words -not almost right words.
– Arthur Hailey -
I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.
– Robert Kirkman -
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art- or almost the only stuff.
– David Herbert Lawrence -
I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
– Pat Mastelotto -
To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
– Alfred Molina -
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
– Donna Tartt -
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
– Don Van Vliet -
For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
– Donnie Wahlberg -
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
– Alfred North Whitehead
Usage examples for almost
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“ " I expect my father almost any moment," she said. ”
– True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop -
“ I am almost afraid! ”
– Innocent Her Fancy and His Fact by Marie Corelli -
“ " I almost made you say it, didn't I? ”
– The Keeper of the Door by Ethel M. Dell -
“ Almost lost my life. ”
– Undo-a-Novel-By-Joe-Hutsko by Hutsko, Joe -
“ I hope you may live till I am almost an old woman, papa. ”
– The Lovels of Arden by M. E. Braddon -
“ They were together; they were almost one mind. ”
– Warlord of Kor by Terry Gene Carr -
“ But I'm almost right again now. ”
– The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay -
“ Pretty soon we were back almost to where we had started from. ”
– Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Percy Keese Fitzhugh -
“ " Oh, it would be almost too good to be true," says she. ”
– The House of Torchy by Sewell Ford -
“ Then we can do almost anything we please- live any place you like." ”
– One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick -
“ But you have a way of getting on without it that is almost as good. ”
– Outpost by J.G. Austin -
“ It's almost a matter of life and death. ”
– The Last Woman by Ross Beeckman -
“ I notice it almost every morning. ”
– The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison -
“ Almost more than I can think of!" ”
– Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy -
“ They are quite good, almost always. ”
– The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett -
“ " Yes, yes, I know," he almost seemed to be saying. ”
– Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller -
“ I decided upon it almost a week ago. ”
– The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. Packard -
“ It was almost time. ”
– Anything You Can Do by Gordon Randall Garrett -
“ I am alive and almost well. ”
– Letters of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Translated by Constance Garnett -
“ We used to go to see her almost every day. ”
– Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett