Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh(adverb)

   (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

   "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. almost(Noun)

   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.

2. almost(Adverb)

   Very close

3. almost(Adverb)

   Not quite

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Almost(adverb)

   nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part

Origin: [AS. ealmst, lmst, quite the most, almost all; eal (OE. al) all + mst most.]

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1. Almost

   In set theory, when dealing with sets of infinite size, the term almost or nearly is used to mean all the elements except for finitely many. In other words, an infinite set S that is a subset of another infinite set L, is almost L if the subtracted set L\S is of finite size. Examples: ⁕The set is almost N for any k in N, because only finitely many natural numbers are less than k. ⁕The set of prime numbers is not almost N because there are infinitely many natural numbers that are not prime numbers. This is conceptually similar to the almost everywhere concept of measure theory, but is not the same. For example, the Cantor set is uncountably infinite, but has Lebesgue measure zero. So a real number in is a member of the complement of the Cantor set almost everywhere, but it is not true that the complement of the Cantor set is almost the real numbers in.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Almost

   awl′mōst, adv. nearly, all but, very nearly. [All and Most.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'almost' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #259

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'almost' in Written Corpus Frequency: #694

3. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'almost' in Adverbs Frequency: #45

Anagrams for almost »

1. stomal

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of almost in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of almost in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Barbara Light:

   I almost fell over.

2. Lee Latham:

   We almost lost that dog.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Love is almost never simple.

4. John Kerry:

   It's really almost insulting.

5. Tom Roseen:

   That's almost a rounding error.

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