Meaning of BARELY
| Pronunciation: | | 'behrlee
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- [adv] by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
- [adv] n a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room"
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| | Synonyms: | | hardly, just, scantily, scarce, scarcely |
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| | Definition: | | \Bare"ly\, adv.
1. Without covering; nakedly.
2. Without concealment or disguise.
3. Merely; only.
R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not
in revenue. --Shak.
4. But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of
quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there
was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
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| | Related Terms: | | a bit, a little, alone, baldly, by a hair, by an ace, closely, ever so little, exclusively, exiguously, faintly, feebly, hardly, imperfectly, inappreciably, inconsequentially, insignificantly, just, just a bit, lightly, little, meagerly, merely, minimally, minutely, nakedly, narrowly, nearly, negligibly, not hardly, not quite, only, only just, plainly, purely, scantily, scarce, scarcely, simply, simply and solely, singly, slightly, solely, tant soit peu, triflingly, weakly |
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