nigh

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Near, close by.

   • The end is nigh!
   • Daybreak is drawing nigh.
   • For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
2. 2

   Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.

   Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.

   • Ye […] are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
3. 3

   to draw nigh (to)

   to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near

   • When the charnel-eyed Pale Horse has nighed
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   1. 4

      Almost, nearly.

      • So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.[…]It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.
      • Hell of a surprise in the seventh season premiere of Game Of Thrones. Arya Stark, fresh off a nigh Cersei-level ambush of the Frey household, comes upon a small campfire surrounded by fresh-faced red cloaks.
   2. 5

      near

      near; close to

      • When the Moon is horned […] is it not ever nigh the Sun?
      • The cottage stood nigh the burn, in a little garden, with lilyoaks and grosart bushes lining the pathway.
   3. 6

      A surname.

The neighborhood

• synonymnear
• neighbornear
• neighborneighbor
• neighbornext
• neighborNighy
• neighborNye