all but
See also: all-but
English
Alternative forms
Adverb
- Very nearly; everything short of.
- The food is all but finished.
- 1977, Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars, written by George Lucas, 20th Century Fox:
- A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. [...] Now the Jedi are all but extinct.
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- When the first wave of postwar immigrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s, it was a period of rising wages, full employment, an expanding welfare state and strong trade unions. Today, Britain’s manufacturing base has all but disappeared, working-class communities have disintegrated, unions have been neutered and the welfare state has begun to crumble.
Translations
very nearly
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