Definition of Almost

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Definition of Almost
	Almost Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part. Related Definitions: All, But, For, Nearly, Nigh, Part, The, Well

Almost Quotations

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Almost Translations

almost in Afrikaans is byna, amper
almost in Dutch is schier, bijkans, haast, bijna
almost in Finnish is melkein
almost in German is fast, nahezu, beinahe, meist, fast
almost in Hungarian is majdnem
almost in Italian is quasi
almost in Latin is fere, paene; pene, ferme; fere
almost in Norwegian is nesten
almost in Portuguese is quase
almost in Spanish is casi

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