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barely
[ bair-lee ]
adverb
- only just; scarcely; no more than; almost not:
He had barely enough money to pay for the car.
- without disguise or concealment; openly:
They gave the facts to him barely.
- scantily; meagerly; sparsely.
- Archaic. merely.
barely
/ ˈɛəɪ /
adverb
- only just; scarcely
barely enough for their needs
- informal.not quite; nearly
barely old enough
- scantily; poorly
barely furnished
- archaic.openly
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See hardly.
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At one point, a stream of 20 Santa Barbara Middle School students testified back-to-back, a few barely reaching the microphone.
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The flats are barely furnished, with just a mattress and blankets on the floor.
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It’s a person I barely know ... he goes, you wanna know the good news?
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Up the hill, enveloped in a late-morning fog, were the barely there outlines of a new Israeli military outpost.
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“In this economy, I can barely support myself,” one wrote.
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