Synonym: almost, approximately, close to, just about. Similar words: not nearly, early, early warning, regularly, similarly, particularly, nearby, on earth. Meaning: ['nɪrlɪ /'nɪə-] 
adv. 1. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished 2. in a close manner.
adv. 1. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished 2. in a close manner. 
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31. They reengineered the department, and cut nearly 400 jobs.
32. They rusticated in villages off the beaten track for nearly fifteen years.
33. Nearly a third of the population died in the Great Plague.
34. She nearly fell down by stumbling over my stretched leg.
35. She went nearly mad with grief after the child died.
36. I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
37. She had nearly got out of the bath and put on her clothes when the telephone rang.
38. I nearly killed myself carrying that suitcase all the way here.
39. The train stopped with a violent jerk , nearly tipping me out of my bunk.
40. When he was 17 he took an overdose of sleeping pills and nearly died.
41. Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.
42. Helicopters rescued nearly 20 people from the roof of the burning building.
43. We've argued this point for nearly two hours and we're just going round in circles.
44. The corpses of the prisoners were nearly unrecognizable from the number of bullet wounds they'd received.
45. John was rather backward as a child; he was nearly three before he could walk.
46. He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
47. He was so angry he nearly flayed his horse alive. Sentencedict.com
48. When Jack nearly drowned, they brought him to by artificial respiration.
49. The new race track is nearly six miles in extent.
50. The wind chopped about and the little boat nearly sank.
51. The museum has reopened after nearly two years of reconstruction.
52. The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
53. In the gloom of the thick forest, they nearly lost their way.
54. They spurted blood all over me. I nearly passed out.
55. She's not nearly as beautiful as you said she was.
56. We scrambled up the nearly perpendicular side of the mountain.
57. Britain last year spent nearly ￡5000 million more on importing food than selling abroad.
58. Revenue from brown goods, including televisions and hi-fis, rose nearly 12 per cent.
59. Your glass is nearly empty. Let me top you up.
60. After nearly falling twice, she managed to make it to the top of the cliff without further incident.
More similar words: not nearly, early, early warning, regularly, similarly, particularly, nearby, on earth, near to, far and near, year after year, neat, sneak, garlic, one another, Charlie, fairly, beneath, parlance, formerly, elderly, properly, underlying, one after another, wear, tear, year, gear, hear, rear.