Meaning & use
Nigh
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Near in place, time, or degree; almost.
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The end of the harvest season was drawing nigh.
It was nigh on impossible to find a parking spot downtown that afternoon.
A note on using this word
"Nigh" is an older form of "near" and now survives mainly in literary, biblical, or dialectal English, as in "the end is nigh".
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Words with an opposite meaning
fardistant
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Close by in space or time.
Winter was nigh, and the villagers hurried to store firewood.
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