adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well-nigh impossible formal (= almost impossible )
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Policing the entire coastline is well-nigh impossible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
impossible
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It comes easy to the habitual vagrant; it is well-nigh impossible to the inexperienced.
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But concentration on the story was well-nigh impossible .
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But that, as they suggest, is a well-nigh impossible task at this distance in time.
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To understand what other creatures perceive we have to do the well-nigh impossible .
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Habitually fractious, difficult, Andrew is now becoming well-nigh impossible .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And both Rim-Suardal and Rim-Drynoch are well-nigh deserted - or so Ord says.
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But concentration on the story was well-nigh impossible.
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But that, as they suggest, is a well-nigh impossible task at this distance in time.
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Habitually fractious, difficult, Andrew is now becoming well-nigh impossible.
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Hair seems to be well-nigh everlasting, and so discovery of a tuft or two does not guarantee recent activity.
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It comes easy to the habitual vagrant; it is well-nigh impossible to the inexperienced.
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The fused, bony plates that protect their soft parts make them well-nigh invulnerable.
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To understand what other creatures perceive we have to do the well-nigh impossible.