Usually means: Very close but not quite.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. almost: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. almost: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. almost: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. almost: Collins English Dictionary
  5. almost: Vocabulary.com
  6. ALmost, Almost, almost: Wordnik
  7. almost: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. almost: Wiktionary
  9. almost: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. almost: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. almost: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Almost, almost: Dictionary.com
  13. almost: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. almost: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Almost (Bowling for Soup song), Almost (Sweet Music), Almost, The Almost: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Almost: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. almost: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. almost: Rhymezone
  19. almost: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. almost: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. almost: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. almost: Free Dictionary
  23. almost: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. almost: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. almost: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. almost: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. almost: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. almost: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Almost, the almost: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Very close to, but not quite.
adverb:  (mathematics) Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).
adverb:  (measure theory, probability theory) Up to a null set; except for a set of measure 0.
noun:  (informal) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.

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