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List of meaning for scarcely

barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce(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

hardly, scarcely(adverb)

almost not

"he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"

by a very small margin

was scarcely able to walk after the near-fatal accident

certainly not

I scarcely think that one person being sick is an "epidemic"

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