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scarcely
adverb
(scarce-ly)
almost not
Synonyms:
barely
,
hardly
,
scarce
,
Examples:
They scarcely ever used the emergency generator.
scarcely
adverb
(scarce-ly)
only a very short time before
Synonyms:
barely
,
hardly
,
just
,
scarce
,
Examples:
Had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open.
Words Related to
scarcely
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hardly
,
barely
,
just
,
scarce
,
seldom
,
rarely
,
practically
,
only
,
little
,
almost
,
not
,
virtually
,
merely
,
simply
,
nigh
,
sparsely
,
slightly
,
badly
,
marginally
,
bit
,
infrequently
,
nearly
,
poorly
,
thinly
,
alone
,
weakly
,
sparingly
,
solely
,
narrowly
,
hard
,
ill
,
rare
,
difficult
,
bad
,
shortly
,
sentence
,
evil
,
wrong
,
doubtless
,
surely
,
even
,
fleetingly
,
faintly
,
perhaps
,
evidently
,
nevertheless
,
vaguely
,
nonetheless
,
indeed
,
though
,
sufficiently
,
peculiarly
,
distinctly
,
yet
,
admittedly
,
heretofore
,
hitherto
,
reasonably
,
plausibly
,
comparatively
,
superficially
,
neither
,
never
,
strangely
,
certainly
,
curiously
,
somehow
,
seemingly
,
oddly
,
infinitely
,
palpably
,
drearily
,
plainly
,
wretchedly
,
much
,
dimly
,
easily
,
yawningly
,
similarly
,
painfully
,
remarkably
,
scantly
,
sadly
,
moreover
,
passingly
,
readily
,
pitifully
,
abidingly
,
dreadfully
,
inescapably
,
crucially
,
marvelously
,
tellingly
,
embarrassingly
,
obscurely
,
utterly
,
richly
,
enviously
,
astonishingly
,
mercifully
,
scarcely
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