| ADVERB | all | scarcely, barely, hardly, just, scarce | only a very short time before |
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| all | scarcely, hardly, barely, scarce | almost not |
| Sounds | skeh'rsliy | |
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| Rhymes | ably ... zealously: 1543 rhymes with liy... | |
| Meaning | Only a very short time before. | |
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| Example | "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open" | |
| Synonyms | barely, hardly, just, scarce | |
| Spanish | apenas | |
| Meaning | almost not. | |
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| Example | "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" | |
| Synonyms | hardly, barely, scarce | |
| Spanish | apenas, difícilmente, escasamente | |
| Adjectives | scarce | deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand |
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