{adv.} Nearly. - Used in negative, interrogative, and conditional sentences, often in the negative forms "nothing like" or "nowhere near". * /It's not anything like as hot today as it was yesterday./ * /Do you think that gold ring is worth anywhere near a hundred dollars?/ * /Today's game was nowhere near as exciting as yesterday's game./ * /Studying that lesson should take nothing like two hours./
See: ANYTHING LIKE or ANYWHERE NEAR.