'Scarcely' definitions:
Definition of 'scarcely'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Only a very short time before; "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 [syn: barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce]
adverb
Almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" [syn: hardly, scarcely]
Definition of 'Scarcely'
From: GCIDE
- Scarce \Scarce\, Scarcely \Scarce"ly\, adv.
- 1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just. [1913 Webster]
- With a scarce well-lighted flame. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The eldest scarcely five year was of age. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scarcely'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit,
- a little,
- at infrequent intervals,
- barely,
- by a hair,
- by an ace,
- by no means,
- ever so little,
- exiguously,
- extremely,
- faintly,
- fairly,
- feebly,
- hardly,
- hardly ever,
- here and there,
- imperfectly,
- in a measure,
- in a way,
- in no way,
- in places,
- in some measure,
- in spots,
- inappreciably,
- inconsequentially,
- infrequently,
- insignificantly,
- just a bit,
- kind of,
- lightly,
- little,
- meagerly,
- minimally,
- minutely,
- negligibly,
- not at all,
- not hardly,
- not often,
- not quite,
- noway,
- nowise,
- on no account,
- only just,
- piddlingly,
- pretty,
- quite,
- rarely,
- rather,
- scantily,
- scarce,
- scarcely ever,
- scrimpily,
- seldom,
- skimpily,
- slightly,
- somewhat,
- sort of,
- sparsely,
- sparsim,
- spottily,
- stingily,
- tant soit peu,
- to a degree,
- to some extent,
- triflingly,
- uncommonly,
- under no circumstances,
- unfrequently,
- unoften,
- very,
- very seldom,
- weakly