Barely is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BARELY in dictionary:

VERB:
• Without covering; nakedly.
• Without concealment or disguise.
• Merely; only.
• But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
ADVERB:
• BARE, unclothed, uncovered
• only just; almost not
• only a very short time before
• in a simple and sparse way
• openly; explicitly.
• in a sparse or scanty way
• only just
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• scarcely

Words related to BARELY

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How to use BARELY in a sentence

• For many days on their return journey they had nothing to live upon but rock moss, which barely kept them alive.
• For all general knowledge lies only in our own thoughts, and consists barely in the contemplation of our own abstract ideas.
• If he was gay, it was barely possible for his wife and child to be sad.
• The plum-pudding fire was burning very low by this time, and Rudolf could barely make out the forms of some of the Bad Dreams who were stretched on the ground around it.
• Novelists of strong imagination and a ready command of expressive words, barely escape writing poetry when they only purpose to write prose.
• It extended barely as far north as the place where now stand the City Hall and the Postoffice.
• And her hand on the knob had barely strength to turn it.
• Then Julius and Sophia came in, and there was barely time to introduce the young men before dinner was served.
• His orders had been issued but just in time, for the concealment was barely attained, when the Indians were upon them.
• It is barely possible that you may understand what it means.
• His prospects included a salary that barely sufficed for one.
• We reached the small river Mithai on the 4th of September, when we found the water so low as barely to admit of the passage of the light boats.
• Lee met Grant at the threshold, and ushered him into a small and barely furnished parlor, where were soon assembled the leading officers of the national army.
• The sun was barely up and the whole city seemed quivering with excitement.
• Space was cramped, and I had barely room to stretch my legs.
• Half the distance had they gone, panting and straining, barely fifteen miles to the hour.
• Being thus compelled to sit on the platform, Cabot could get so little purchase that half his effort was wasted, and the progress made was barely noticeable.
• We had barely time to deposit our burden when the advance guard of the Fenians rushed up and surrounded the tavern, flushed with apparent victory, and wild with excitement.
• He was barely fifty, but evidently a chronic invalid.
• Yussef, sorely wounded, left to the Cid his famous sword Tisona, and barely escaped from the field with his life.
• Barely half an hour later, however, the two battalions again marched on to the plain.
• He had not spoken a word, indeed had barely once stirred in the three hours, but had sat turning a white and fascinated face upon speaker after speaker.
• These two rooms were about as barely furnished as possible under a minimum of necessary articles and quality.
• At length it became evident that a slight, a very feeble, and barely noticeable tinge of color had flushed up within the cheeks, and along the sunken small veins of the eyelids.
• Without stood a ten year old girl, of the most bewitching beauty, as barely clad as ever the children of her blood went over the green meadows of Achaia.
• Lady Kingsland barely repressed a cry as she saw the paper, and by its side something wrapped in silver tissue.

Similar words containing BARE without suffix ly

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