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nowhere near

nowhere near adverb: not by a large margin, not nearly, not at all.

Adverb

nowhere near

  1. Not by a large margin, not nearly, not at all.
    • He's not bad, but he's nowhere near as good as me.
    • We have nowhere near enough money to buy you a car.

nowhere near meaning in Urdu

nowhere near in Urdu

دور دور تک نہیں

Origin of nowhere near

Presumably a reformation of Old English nāhwǣr nēah (literally “nowhere nigh”).

Questions about nowhere near

What does nowhere near mean?
Nowhere near means not by a large margin, not nearly, not at all.
What is nowhere near in Urdu?
Nowhere near in Urdu is دور دور تک نہیں. See Nowhere near meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is nowhere near?
Nowhere near is an adverb.

Words near nowhere near in the dictionary

  1. nowhere
  2. Nowhere Creek
  3. nowhere else
  4. nowhere in sight
  5. nowhere income
  6. nowhere near
  7. nowhere to be found
  8. nowhere to be seen
  9. nowhereness
  10. nowheres
  11. nowheresville

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nowhere near (page history and authors); nowhere near (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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