barely

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adverb

1. only a very short time before (Freq. 11)
- 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
• Syn:
hardly, just, scarcely, scarce
2. in a sparse or scanty way (Freq. 2)
- a barely furnished room
• Syn:
scantily
• Derived from adjective:
bare, scanty (for: scantily)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  scantily, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce