Associations to the word «Scarcely»
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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".
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