Analysis Complete

scarcely

/ scarcely /
adverb

Definitions & Examples

adverb Sense 1
almost not
"he hardly ever goes fishing"
"he was hardly more than sixteen years old"
"they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
adverb Sense 2
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"
Semantic Complexity
19%
Sense Count
2
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
0
Times Searched
2
Relationship Distribution