Synonyms for scarcely
ˈskɛərs liscarce·ly

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1. scarcelyadverb

   Synonyms:
   barely, hardly

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1. barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarceadverb

   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

   Synonyms:
   just, barely, hardly, merely, scantily, exactly, simply, but, precisely, scarce, only, just now

2. hardly, scarcelyadverb

   almost not

   "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"

   Synonyms:
   scarce, hardly, barely, just

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1. scarcelyadjective

   Synonyms:
   hardly, barely, but just, with difficulty

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1. List of paraphrases for "scarcely":

   hardly, barely, little, rarely, almost, sparsely, just

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1. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

   No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

2. James Joyce:

   Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

3. Roger Bacon:

   There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

4. Alexis de Tocqueville:

   Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

5. Friedrich August von Hayek:

   The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.