Antonyms for the phrase "pretty nearly" would include words such as completely, totally, entirely, wholly, and fully. These words all indicate a sense of absolute completeness, as opposed to the near completeness suggested by "pretty nearly." Other antonyms may include words that indicate less than the intended amount, such as partially, incompletely, fractionally, or sparsely. Alternatively, antonyms could focus on the opposite of "pretty," such as ugly, unattractive, or unsightly. Regardless of the antonym chosen, the emphasis is on a lack of nearness or completion, rather than the almost-but-not-quite quality of "pretty nearly.

What are the antonyms for Pretty nearly?

• prep.

  • about
  • afar
  ,
  • away
  ,
  • distant
  ,
  • far
  ,
  • remote
  .

Famous quotes with Pretty nearly

• And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

  James Levine
• If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
• One could divine pretty nearly where the force lay, since the last ten years had given to the great mechanical energies — coal, iron, steam — a distinct superiority in power over the old industrial elements — agriculture, handwork, and learning; but the result of this revolution on a survivor from the fifties resembled the action of the earthworm; he twisted about, in vain, to recover his starting-point; he could no longer see his own trail; he had become an estray; a flotsam or jetsam of wreckage; a belated reveller, or a scholar-gipsy like Matthew Arnold's. His world was dead. Not a Polish Jew fresh from Warsaw or Cracow — not a furtive Yacoob or Ysaac still reeking of the Ghetto, snarling a weird Yiddish to the officers of the customs — but had a keener instinct, an intenser energy, and a freer hand than he — American of Americans, with Heaven knew how many Puritans and Patriots behind him, and an education that had cost a civil war.

  Henry Adams
• In the course of my twenty years career as an assailant of special privilege, I have attacked pretty nearly every important interest in America. The statements I have made, if false, would have been enough to deprive me of a thousand times all the property I ever owned, and to have sent me to prison for a thousand times a normal man's life. I have been called a liar on many occasions, needless to say; but never once in all these twenty years has one of my enemies ventured to bring me into a court of law, and to submit the issue between us to a jury of American citizens.

  Upton Sinclair

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