Analysis Complete

barely

/ barely /
adverb

Definitions & Examples

adverb Sense 1
by a small margin
"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"
adverb Sense 2
in a sparse or scanty way
"a barely furnished room"
Pertains to:
bare(a) scanty spare
Semantic Complexity
23%
Sense Count
2
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
0
Times Searched
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