The Collaborative International Dictionary
Almost \Al"most\ ([add]l"m[=o]st), adv. [AS. ealm[ae]st, [ae]lm[ae]st, quite the most, almost all; eal (OE. al) all + m?st most.] Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
--Acts
xxvi. 28.
Almost never, hardly ever; scarcely ever.
Almost nothing, scarcely anything.
Usage examples of "almost never".
I almost never let a man help me stand, sit, or do much of anything.
But if you really trace it through, I think this almost never happens.
After forty-five, while discharged from labor, the citizen still remains liable to special calls, in case of emergencies causing a sudden great increase in the demand for labor, till he reaches the age of fifty-five, but such calls are rarely, in fact almost never, made.
The result was that for the rest of my career, I almost never went to a meeting unprepared.
Brisk woman-executive types almost never gave you anything, or even took a leaflet.
I have the feeling, very familiar to me when I am out of time but almost never otherwise, of being buoyed up by time, floating effortlessly on its surface like a fat lady swimmer.
I'd known Morelli for most of my life, and I almost never had an on-the-spot orgasm, anymore.
As usual inside Trencher, where one was almost never out of sight of another body, numerous presences filled most of the available space, almost all of them homo sapiens, as this was a pink region, many of them in the flesh.