almost
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
measure-theory
probability-theory
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós
Proto-Germanic *allaz
Proto-Germanic *ala-
Proto-West Germanic *ala-
Old English æl-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *maiz
Proto-Germanic *maistaz
Proto-Germanic *maist
Proto-West Germanic *maist
Old English mǣst
Old English eallmǣst
Middle English almost
English almost
From Middle English almost, from Old English eallmǣst (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + most.
Base: most
Affixes: al-#Etymology_1-
Inflected forms:
form: aulmos
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Jamaica
form: almosts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aulmos
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Jamaica
Senses:
gloss: Very close to, but not quite.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Almost all people went there.
We almost missed the train.
Nobody, or almost, noticed anything unusual.
Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.
For some odd reason, Sherin has chosen to direct the play as a comedy — at times almost a farce.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
gloss: Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: almost all
almost no
gloss: Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: almost everywhere
almost nowhere
almost certain
almost sure
gloss: Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts.
Synonyms: all but
almost
as good as
as near as makes no difference
fornigh
just about
more or less
near as damn it
nigh on
nighwhat
not quite
pretty much
tantamount to
Antonyms: mostly
somewhat
slightly
very
Related words: approximately
Derived words: almost all
almost doesn't count
almost everywhere
almost fall off one's chair
almost fall of one's chair
almostness
almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
almost prime
almost split sequence
almost standards mode
almost surely
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: գրեթե
roman: gretʻe
lang: Bulgarian
word: почти́
roman: počtí
lang: Finnish
word: melkein
lang: Finnish
word: lähes
lang: Finnish
word: miltei
lang: Finnish
word: liki
lang: German
word: fast
lang: Polish
word: prawie
lang: Polish
word: niemal