nowhere near

adverb

1. in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
2. to no place: We went nowhere last weekend.

noun

3. the state of nonexistence or seeming nonexistence: A gang of thieves appeared from nowhere.
4. anonymity or obscurity: She came from nowhere to win the championship.
5. an unknown, remote, or nonexistent place or region.

adjective Informal.

6. being or leading nowhere; pointless; futile: to be stuck in a nowhere job.
7. worthless or useless: That’s a nowhere idea if I ever heard one.

Idioms

8. miles from nowhere, in a remote, isolated, or inaccessible area.
9. nowhere near, not nearly: There’s nowhere near enough food to go around.

adverb

1. in, at, or to no place; not anywhere
2. get nowhere or get nowhere fast informal to fail completely to make any progress
3. nowhere near far from; not nearly

noun

4. a nonexistent or insignificant place
5. middle of nowhere a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place

adv.Old English nahwær “nowhere, not at all;” see no + where. Similar constructions were attempted with nowhat (1520s) and nowhen (1764), but they failed to take hold and remain nonce words. see under not anything like. In addition to the idiom beginning with nowhere

nowhere near

also see:

get nowhere

in the middle (of nowhere)

out of nowhere