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Another word for barely

Adverb

  1. By a very little; almost not

    2. See also:

    near

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Another word for barely

Modifier
    2. See also:

    hardly

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He barely talked to me.

  • Her mouth felt dry and her voice was barely a whisper.

  • Yancey was barely breathing hard.

  • Barely a decade earlier, Cleveland, also a Democrat, had said essentially, "Look, the government shouldn't be helping the poor Texans; that's the role of charity."

  • They barely knew each other.

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