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

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1. 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.

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. Archibald MacLeish:

   The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

4. Thomas Arnold:

   My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

5. Jesse Stuart:

   Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.