almost

See also: álmost and Álmost

English

Alternative forms

• aulmos (Jamaican English)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English eallmǣst (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to .

Pronunciation

• (UK) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɔːl.ˈməʊst/, /ˈɔːl.məʊst/
• (US) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.moʊst/, /ˈɑl.moʊst/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: al‧most
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -əʊst

Adverb

almost (not comparable)

1. Very close to, but not quite.

   Almost all people went there. - Not all but very close to it.

   We almost missed the train. - Not missed but very close to it.

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Synonyms

• (very close to, but not quite): nearly, nigh, well-nigh, near, close to, next to, practically, virtually

Translations

very close to

• Ainu: ナアニ (naani), ナアニフンコ (naanihunko), ナアニポ (naanipo)
• Arabic: تَقْرِيبًا (taqrīban)
• Aragonese: quasi
• Armenian: համարյա (hy) (hamarya), գրեթե (hy) (gretʻe)
• Asturian: cuasi, casi
• Azeri: az qala, az qaldı
• Belarusian: ама́ль (amálʹ)
• Bengali: প্রায় (pray)
• Breton: hogos (br), hogozik (br)
• Bulgarian: почти́ (bg) (počtí)
• Burmese: လုနီးပါး (my) (lu.ni:pa:)
• Catalan: gairebé, quasi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幾乎／几乎 (zh) (jīhū), 几乎 (zh) (jīhū), 差點／差点 (zh) (chàdiǎn), 差点 (zh) (chàdiǎn), 差一點／差一点 (zh), 差一点 (zh) (chāyīdiǎn), 差不多 (zh) (chàbuduō)

• Czech: skoro (cs), téměř (cs)
• Danish: næsten
• Dutch: bijna (nl), nagenoeg (nl), vrijwel (nl), zo goed als
• Esperanto: preskaŭ (eo)
• Estonian: peaaegu
• Faroese: næstan
• Finnish: lähes (fi), melkein (fi), miltei (fi), liki (fi)
• French: presque (fr), quasiment (fr)
• Galician: case (gl)
• Georgian: თითქმის (titkmis)
• German: fast (de), beinahe (de), so gut wie (de)
• Greek: σχεδόν (el) (schedón), παραλίγο (el) (paralígo)
• Hebrew: כִּמְעַט (he) (kim'át)
• Hindi: लगभग (hi) (lagbhag)
• Hungarian: majdnem (hu)
• Ido: preske (io)
• Indonesian: hampir (id), nyaris (id)
• Irish: beagnach
• Italian: quasi (it)
• Jamaican Creole: aalmos
• Japanese: ほとんど (ja) (hotondo)
• Kazakh: дерлік (kk) (derlık)
• Khmer: ជិត (km) (cɨt), ស្ទើរតែ (stǝǝ tae)
• Korean: 거의 (ko)
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• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: , ,

• Lao: ເກືອບ (lo) (kư̄ap)
• Latgalian: kuoni, gondreiž
• Latin: paene, fere
• Latvian: gandrīz
• Lithuanian: beveik (lt)
• Macedonian: речиси (rečisi), скоро (skoro)
• Maltese: kważi
• Maori: pitoiti, pitopitoiti, tata, kainamu, tōtahi
• Mirandese: quaije
• Mongolian: бараг (mn) (barag), мөлтөс (mn) (möltös), шахам (mn) (šaxam)
• Navajo: kʼasdą́ą́ʼ, kʼadę́ę
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nesten (no), bortimot

  Nynorsk: nesten, bortimot

• Novial:
• Occitan: gaireben (oc), quasi, quasiben, quasiment
• Persian: تقریباً (taqriban)
• Polish: prawie (pl)
• Portuguese: quase (pt)
• Romanian: aproape (ro)
• Russian: почти́ (ru) (počtí)
• Scots: awmaist, amaist, maistly, maistlins
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скоро

  Roman: skoro (sh)

• Slovak: skoro, takmer (sk)
• Slovene: skôraj (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: skóro

• Spanish: casi (es)
• Swedish: nästan (sv), närapå (sv)
• Telugu: దాదాపు (te) (dādāpu), దరిదాపు (te) (daridāpu)
• Thai: เกือบจะ (gèuap jà), เกือบ (th) (gèuap)
• Tok Pisin: klosap
• Turkish: neredeyse (tr)
• Ukrainian: ма́йже (uk) (májže), сливе́ (slyvé)
• Vietnamese: gần (vi), gần như, hầu như
• West Frisian: hast
• Yiddish: כּמעט (kimat)

Noun

almost (plural almosts)

1. (informal) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.

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

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