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

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. scarcely

   "You use scarcely to emphasize that something is only just true or only just the case.You can use scarcely to say that something is not true or is not the case, in a humorous or critical way.By a very little; almost not:barely, hardly, just, scarce.hardly, barely, only just, scarce,by no means, hardly, not at all, definitely not, under no circumstances, on no account,rarely, seldom, not often, infrequently, occasionally, once in a blue moon (informal), hardly ever;by a narrow margin.

   Fascism’s unlikely recrudescence in Britain in the years after the war—and the resistance it met— are scarcely remembered at all.

   Submitted by anonymous on May 23, 2020  

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. Thomas Arnold:

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

2. Alexis de Tocqueville:

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

3. Tom Blair:

   Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

4. 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.

5. James Fenimore Cooper:

   The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

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