Meaning

2 senses
  1. Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.

    not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances

  2. (archaic, poetic)Near, close by.

    The end is nigh!

    Daybreak is drawing nigh.

    nahe, nah bei

    бли́жнийblížnij, бли́зкийblízkij

Examples

15 sentences
  1. The end is nigh.

    Кінець уже близько. — aandrusiak

    ruКонец близок. — marafon

    deDas Ende ist nahe. — Esperantostern

  2. I knew the end was nigh.

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  3. It's nigh-on impossible to work out what will happen.

  4. The end was nigh.

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  5. Our bodies, indeed, are nigh each other, but our souls are sundered.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
near, close by:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
near, close by:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English neygh, from Old English nēah, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw

Inherited from Middle English neygh, from Old English nēah, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw, from *nēhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).

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Forms

nigher/more nigh, nighest/most nigh
Comparativenigher / more nigh Lesson
Superlativenighest / most nigh Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
near:closeA1
Close in meaning
  • being on the left side:near
  • not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances:nearclose

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
nigh — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto