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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