Synonyms for scarcely
ˈskɛərs liscarce·ly

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1. scarcelyadverb

   Synonyms:
   barely, hardly

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1. barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarceadverb

   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

   Synonyms:
   just, barely, hardly, merely, scantily, exactly, simply, but, precisely, scarce, only, just now

2. hardly, scarcelyadverb

   almost not

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

   Synonyms:
   scarce, hardly, barely, just

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1. scarcelyadjective

   Synonyms:
   hardly, barely, but just, with difficulty

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1. List of paraphrases for "scarcely":

   hardly, barely, little, rarely, almost, sparsely, just

How to pronounce scarcely?

How to say scarcely in sign language?

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How to use scarcely in a sentence?

1. Dalton Vos:

   I’m prettystockedup now, but I’m trying to use it scarcely, that way, I can give it to someone who is in need more than I am.

2. Tom Blair:

   Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

3. Alexis de Tocqueville:

   Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

4. Voltaire:

   The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

5. James Fenimore Cooper:

   The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.