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nigh

/nahy/US // naɪ //UK // (naɪ) //

近,近日,傍晚时分,傍傍

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : near in space, time, or relation: The time draws nigh.
    • : nearly; almost;: nigh onto twenty years.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    nigh·er, nigh·est.

    • : near; approaching: Evening is nigh.
    • : short or direct: to take the nighest route.
    • : being on the left side: to be astride the nigh horse.
    • : Archaic. parsimonious; stingy.
prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : near.
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. to approach.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • These environments fuel great ideas and teamwork which has been nigh on impossible to replicate from our kitchens over yet another virtual call.

  • For families long separated by pandemic travel restrictions, the time is nigh for a reunion.

  • The warnings prompted many observers to declare that, finally, after years of Netflix tacitly allowing password sharing, the end of the common practice was nigh.

  • Most astronomers didn’t really believe that Betelgeuse’s end was nigh, even as they rushed to schedule telescope time.

  • It’s nigh impossible to pick out who the front-runners are, but the candidates with the most money are drawing a lot from their own bank accounts.

  • Three quarters of those people believe the end of the world is nigh.

  • Naturally, this has doomsayers preaching that the end is nigh.

  • These are, in mechanical terms, simple fixes; politically, a nigh-impossible slog.

  • Replacing the bread in a sandwich with fried meat makes me worry the apocalypse is nigh.

  • We pulled every string we could for nigh on a year and a half.

  • I've always hed a reel mean feelin' about 'em; I didn't want ter come nigh 'em, nor ter hev 'em come nigh me.

  • In Ireland they have palpably and greatly benefited every class but the stockholders, and these they have well nigh ruined.

  • All who are in him, though once like those, who were sometimes afar off, are made nigh by his blood.

  • An' the old woman be quite crazed, an' well nigh dead wi' grief, an' has not been out o' bed for a fortnite.

  • An officer in the Venezuelan and the Peruvian services was fortunately nigh the banks of the river, shooting wild pigs.