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nothing like en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • (Mid-Atlantic, US) audio

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not nearly.
    • Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing. 1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 45, page 98:
    • Ten years ago travel was nothing like as easy (as it is now).
    • It was nothing like that.
    • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time. 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

Antonyms

just · every bit