Fairly and Nigh

Fairly

Fairly adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Usage example: he fairly knocked me flat on my face as he ran by

Nigh and fairly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nigh" instead an adverb "Fairly".

Nearby Words: fair, fairness

Nigh

Nigh adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Usage example: he has nigh completed his degree

Fairly and nigh are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fairly" instead an adverb "Nigh".

Both words in one sentence

  • Comicbook / Ghost Rider Nigh Invulnerable: Ghost Rider fairly early on was portrayed as extremely difficult to kill, though it took Johnny Blaze at least some time to realize this.
  • A trucker and conspiracy theorist tells Darkwing that while vampiric red potatoes are fairly reasonable, russets are nigh-on beasts and can only be beaten by shaking a specific species of plant (which fortuitously turns out to be Bushroot) and saying potato backwards.
  • The narrator's story as a whole is filled with lots of dialogue that just consists of the characters discussing fairly unimportant things and agreeing with eachother, and three of the main characters are written nigh-identically.
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