Barely

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Barely \Bare"ly\, adv.
     1. Without covering; nakedly.
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     2. Without concealment or disguise.
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     3. Merely; only.
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              R. For now his son is duke.
              W. Barely in title, not in revenue.   --Shak.
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     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  barely
       adv 1: 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 [syn: {hardly}, {just},
               {scarcely}, {scarce}]
       2: in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room" [syn: {scantily}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "barely":
     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