Usually means: Very close or nearly happening.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. nigh: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nigh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nigh: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nigh: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nigh: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nigh, nigh: Wordnik
  7. nigh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Nigh, nigh: Wiktionary
  9. nigh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nigh: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nigh: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nigh, nigh: Dictionary.com
  13. nigh: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nigh: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nigh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nigh: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nigh: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nigh: Rhymezone
  19. Nigh: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nigh: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nigh: Free Dictionary
  22. nigh: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. nigh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Nigh, nigh: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. nigh: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nigh: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nigh: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NIGH: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Nigh)

▸ adjective:  (archaic, poetic) Near, close by, almost, all but.
▸ adjective:  Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near
▸ adverb:  Almost, nearly.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A surname from Middle English
▸ noun:  A surname from German

Similar:
just about, virtually, near, almost, about, all but, well-nigh, nearly, most, left, more...

Opposite:
far, distant, remote

Types:
regular, light, heavy, more...

Phrases:
well nigh, draw near nigh, nigh on, George Nigh, the end is nigh, more...

Adjectives:
well, sick, mighty, full, pretty, evil, dead, damn, purty, head, covert


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Similar:
just about, virtually, near, almost, about, all but, well-nigh, nearly, most, left, more...

Opposite:
far, distant, remote

Types:
regular, light, heavy, more...

Phrases:
well nigh, draw near nigh, nigh on, George Nigh, the end is nigh, late nigh, not nigh, over nigh, opposite of nigh, dark nigh, nigh impossible, letters shouted as the weekend is nigh, drew nigh, nigh all, more...

Adjectives:
well, sick, mighty, full, pretty, evil, dead, damn, purty, head, covert



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