Barely

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • ad. By a very little; hardly: could barely see the road in the fog.
  • ad. In a scanty manner; sparsely: a barely furnished room.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • ad. By a small margin.
  • ad. Almost not at all.
  • ad. merely.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • ad. Without covering; nakedly.
  • ad. Without concealment or disguise.
  • ad. Merely; only.
  • ad. But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare (of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Nakedly; openly; without disguise or concealment.
  • Scantily; poorly: as, a man barely clad, or a room barely furnished.
  • Only just; no more than; with nothing over or to spare: as, she is barely sixteen.
  • Merely; only.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • ad. in a sparse or scanty way
  • ad. only a very short time before
    • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nakedly    merely    only    hardly    scarcely   
    Verb Stem
    bare   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    fairly    rarely    squarely    unfairly   
     
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