Synonyms for almost
ˈɔl moʊst, ɔlˈmoʊstal·most

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1. almostadverb

   Very close

   In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts.

   Synonyms:
   nigh

2. almostadverb

   Not quite

   Synonyms:
   nearly

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nighadverb

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

   "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"

   Synonyms:
   well-nigh, virtually, closely, or so, intimately, roughly, just about, some, nigh, most, about, nearly, more or less, close, near, approximately, around, to the highest degree, close to

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. almostadjective

   Synonyms:
   nearly, toward, towards, well-nigh, all but, for the most part, not quite, within a little

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "almost":

   nearly, virtually, practically, near, close, approximately, fast, hardly, closely, roughly, about, around, casi, pretty, barely, scarcely, nigh, près

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1. Rory McIlroy:

   When I had that run in' 14, I didn't really celebrate it too much, it was almost as if I was playing an eight-round tournament, and that's how I feel here. I've played really well these four days and it sets me up for next week.

2. Peter Pantuso:

   Every small business I think across America is hurting at some level, but there are very few other industries that are almost completely shut down with no hope of coming back for at least six months, next year, and then it'll be a slow recovery.

3. Chris Christie:

   The third debate wasn't awful. A lot of the questions were bad, but you know what you learned a lot about those candidates on that stage too -- how you can handle going back and forth, the presidency is almost never scripted, so we shouldn't have those debates scripted either.

4. Jimmy Haslam:

   Just take out almost and you got it.

5. Aaron Friedberg:

   It is almost like they are problems of different intensity burning at a different rate, in the grand scheme of things, Russia is a burned out case.