Usually means: Almost, but not completely achieved.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word nearly:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. nearly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nearly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nearly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nearly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nearly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nearly, nearly: Wordnik
  7. nearly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nearly: Wiktionary
  9. nearly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nearly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nearly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nearly, nearly: Dictionary.com
  13. nearly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Nearly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nearly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nearly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nearly: Rhymezone
  18. nearly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nearly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. nearly: Free Dictionary
  21. nearly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nearly: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. nearly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nearly: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nearly: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nearly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In close approximation; almost, virtually.
adverb:  (now rare) With great scrutiny; carefully.
adverb:  With close relation; intimately.
adverb:  Closely, in close proximity.
adverb:  Stingily.

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