Associations to the word «Scarcely»
Noun
Adjective
- Audible
- Credible
- Intelligible
- Daring
- Uttered
- Articulate
- Veiled
- Breathed
- Noticeable
- Conceivable
- Conscious
- Recognizable
- Practicable
- Scanty
- Dreary
- Feeble
- Abreast
- Concealed
- Inferior
- Boyish
- Twenty
- Visible
- Motionless
- Less
- Trifling
- Frightful
- Breathing
- Accustomed
- Restrained
- Wretched
- Utmost
- Knowing
- Deserving
- Marvellous
- Seeming
- Civilized
- Monotonous
- Dignified
- Touched
- Stately
Verb
Adverb
Wiktionary
SCARCELY, adverb. (modal) Probably not.
SCARCELY, adverb. (modal) Certainly not.
SCARCELY, adverb. (degree) Almost not at all; by a small margin.
Dictionary definition
SCARCELY, 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.
SCARCELY, adverb. Almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.