Scarcely

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • ad. By a small margin; barely: We scarcely made it in time.
  • ad. Almost not; hardly: We scarcely ever used the reserve generator.
  • ad. Certainly not: They could scarcely complain after such good treatment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • ad. Probably not.
  • ad. Certainly not.
  • ad. Almost not at all; by a small margin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Sparingly; parsimoniously; niggardly; stingily.
  • Scantily; insufficiently.
  • Hardly; barely; with difficulty.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • ad. almost not
  • ad. only a very short time before
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