adverb. Almost but not quite.

adverb. In a close manner; intimately.

Close at hand; in close proximity; at no great distance; hence, narrowly; with close scrutiny.

Closely: as, two persons nearly related.

Intimately; pressingly; with a close relation to one's interest or happiness.

Within a little of; almost: as, nearly twenty; the prisoner nearly escaped; nearly dead with cold.

With niggardliness or parsimony.

Exactly; precisely.

adverb. In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.

adverb. almost, but not quite; slightly short of

adverb. intimately; closely

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

adverb. in a close manner

"In _A. frostiana_ and the pale forms of the species the spores are nearly globose or oval, rarely with a tendency to become elliptical, but _the content is quite constantly finely granular_, while the spores of _A. cothurnata_ are perhaps more constantly globose or nearly so, but the spore is _nearly filled with a highly refractive oil globule or "nucleus.""

austerely  cavalierly  clearly  dearly  merely  

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about  about  all but  all in all  almost