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barely
[ bair-lee ]
adverb
- only just; scarcely; no more than; almost not:
He had barely enough money to pay for the car.
- without disguise or concealment; openly:
They gave the facts to him barely.
- scantily; meagerly; sparsely.
- Archaic. merely.
barely
/ ˈbɛəlɪ /
adverb
- only just; scarcely
barely enough for their needs
- informal.not quite; nearly
barely old enough
- scantily; poorly
barely furnished
- archaic.openly
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Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Then, with your fingers or tongue or teeth, you extract the tiny, firm seed, which barely tastes like anything.
He also sat for a two-part interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, although the coronavirus barely came up.
Notice that there’s barely a noticeable difference on September 2nd.
In most other states which have been polled about as much as Florida — there’ve been 12 polls there since the start of the Democratic convention — they’ve seen far less of a change or barely any movement at all.
There was not an inch of her body that was not in pain, and an incessant cough barely allowed her to breathe.
Indeed, as an almost purely advisory firm, Lazard is (appropriately) barely affected by the Dodd-Frank reforms.
We were barely into the appetizer when he asked a fairly basic question—where did my family live?
Throughout all the stories of loss and pain with the Chief, there was barely a trace of emotion.
The star of the film was Glenn Ford, but I barely noticed him.
But even when the jet will be able to shoot its gun, the F-35 barely carries enough ammunition to make the weapon useful.
Then he cut away the knobs by which he climbed to it, until there was barely sufficient for his own tiny toes to rest on.
The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.
Regular taxation, monopolies, mortgages, and loans barely sufficed to provide for the budget.
She was barely five feet five, but she ranked with tall women, her height as unchallenged as the chiselling of her profile.
Well might Sir Charles Hawkins hesitate to believe what the experience of sixty years has barely sufficed to make plain to us.
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