Definitions for scarcely
ˈskɛərs liscarce·ly

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce(adverb)

   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

2. hardly, scarcely(adverb)

   almost not

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. scarcely(Adverb)

   Probably not.

   One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.

2. scarcely(Adverb)

   Certainly not.

   One could scarcely expect the man to know how to fly a helicopter.

3. scarcely(Adverb)

   Almost not at all; by a small margin.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Scarcely(adverb)

   with difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just

2. Scarcely(adverb)

   frugally; penuriously

British National Corpus

1. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'scarcely' in Adverbs Frequency: #327

How to pronounce scarcely ?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say scarcely in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of scarcely in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of scarcely in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of scarcely in a Sentence

1. Voltaire:

   The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

2. John Keats:

   I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

3. Thomas Arnold:

   My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

4. Lord Chesterfield:

   There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

5. Alexis de Tocqueville:

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

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