almost
advEtymology
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.
Definitions
Very close to, but not quite.
- Almost all people went there.
- We almost missed the train.
- Nobody, or almost, noticed anything unusual.
Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually…
Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).
- almost all
- almost no
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymall but
- synonymalmost
- synonymas good as
- synonymas near as makes no difference
- synonymfornigh
- synonymjust about
- synonymmore or less
- synonymnear as damn it
- synonymnigh on
- synonymnighwhat
- synonymnot quite
- synonympretty much
- antonymmostly
- antonymsomewhat
- antonymslightly
- antonymvery
- neighborapproximately
- neighborpartially
- neighborunsuccessfully
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at almost. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at almost. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at almost
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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