barely

Adverb

• Only just; almost not.
• only a very short time before; ; ; ; ; - W.B.Yeats
  • "they could barely hear the speaker"
• in a sparse or scanty way
  • "a barely furnished room"

Adv

• By a small margin..
• Almost not at all.
• Recently, just now.
• Merely.
• Openly, clearly, plainly.

Examples

• I barely completed my homework. However, I got a score of 5 for it.
• I barely got to the store.
• I barely had enough tiles to spell that seven-letter word.
• The plane is so far away now I can barely see it.
• Yes, it is barely visible.

Synonyms

hardly, just, scantily, scarce, scarcely, only just