6 Synonyms & Antonyms For BARELY

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Definitions barely [bair-lee] / ˈbɛər li / ADJECTIVE not quite Synonyms STRONGEST almost hardly scarcely STRONG just scantily WEAK only just

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"We were barely getting by as it is. I don't know how people will manage," she told AFP at a Cairo market.

From Barron's

As they started the business, Fink and Koh headed off to college—but just barely.

From The Wall Street Journal

It couldn’t fly—it could barely even hop.

From Literature

I barely said anything to my parents, even though they asked me a few times what was going on.

From Literature

With the Iranian internet barely functioning and security extremely tight, there is relatively little independent user generated content being posted from within Iran.

From Barron's

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Words related to barely are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word barely. Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

enough hardly just less little meagerly merely narrowly purely rarely simply solely

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