Definitions for scarcely

Overview of adv scarcely

The adv scarcely has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (10) barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce

(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)

2. hardly, scarcely

(almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator")