not nearly

phrase

: much less than : not at all

There's not nearly enough flour for a cake here.

It's not nearly as late as I thought it was.

Examples of not nearly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But the results are not nearly as clean, or useful, as the company suggests. — Bob Herman, STAT, 13 July 2026

Sacramento County’s arrests were not nearly as high as 12 other counties in the state including Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Clara and Fresno. — Mathew Miranda july 9, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026

Instead, Skubal missed time (though not nearly as much as expected) with loose bodies in his pitching elbow, and now Detroit has the third-worst record in an American League full of bad records. — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 7 July 2026

Zendaya may play the all-knowing goddess Athena in Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation of The Odyssey, but the actress was not nearly so omniscient about her casting in the film. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 6 July 2026

Rhymes for not nearly

• austerely
• severely
• sincerely
• cavalierly
• clearly
• dearly
• merely
• queerly
• yearly