barely

  • (r) 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, scarce, scarcely, just,
  • (r) in a sparse or scanty way
    • a barely furnished room
    scantily,

Synonyms

hardly scarce scarcely just scantily

Words of close approximity

bared