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Date "well-nigh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: Well-nighSynonyms: about (adv), all but (adv), almost (adv), just about (adv), most (adv), near (adv), nearly (adv), nigh (adv), virtually (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nearness | About; hereabouts, thereabouts; roughly, in round numbers; approximately, approximatively; as good as, well-nigh. |
Smallness | Almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, close upon; peu s'en faut, near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than. about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be the same, be little more or less. no ways, no way, no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of means; on no account, at no hand. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Well-nigh |
| English words defined with "well-nigh": about, all but, almost ♦ just about ♦ most ♦ near, nearly, nigh ♦ virtually. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "well-nigh": Ages ♦ Corneille d'Esope ♦ Lay by the Heels. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | People who thronged the floor were well-nigh as various as the paintings.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Well-nigh" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-nigh" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 46 | 50,285 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "well-nigh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | почти (about, all but, almost, close on, much, nearly, practically, quasi, well nigh). (various references) | |
Swedish | nära nog (well nigh). (various references) | |
Turkish | neredeyse imkânsız (well-nigh impossible). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | suýt (verge), hầu (throttle), gần (by, closely, hard, inch, near, near-by, nearly, next, proximate, verge). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Well-nigh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wellnigh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-l-l-n-w" | |
-1 letter: helling, welling. | |
-2 letters: hewing, whinge. | |
-3 letters: hinge, ingle, neigh, weigh, while, whine. | |
-4 letters: elhi, gien, gill, glen, heil, hell, hewn, hill, lien, line, ling, lwei, nigh, nill, well, when, whig, whin, wile, will, wine, wing. | |
-5 letters: ell, eng, gel, gen, ghi, gie, gin, hen, hew, hie, hin, ill, leg, lei, lie, lin, new, nil, wen. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-l-l-n-w" | |
+3 letters: wholesaling. | |
+5 letters: fellowshiping. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 6C 6C 2D 6E 69 67 68 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101110 01101001 01100111 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W e l l - n i g h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0065 006C 006C 002D 006E 0069 0067 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)577178781580757374 |
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