BARELY | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of barely in English barelyadverb uk /ˈbeə.li/ us /ˈber.li/ Add to word list Add to word list B2 by the smallest amount: They have barely enough (= no more than what is needed) to pay the rent this month. She was barely (= only just) 15 when she won her first championship. Synonyms hardly (ONLY JUST) scarce literary old-fashioned scarcely (ONLY JUST)

• The writing on the tombstone was barely visible.
• His wages are barely enough to keep body and soul together.
• After paying for our travel costs, we barely broke even.
• The council's provision for the elderly is barely adequate.
• There was a barely perceptible movement in his right arm.

Merely and barely

• all
• all of something idiom
• at a pinch idiom
• but
• by a whisker idiom
• by inches idiom
• can hardly do something
• hardly
• ill
• inch
• just
• mere
• merely
• merest
• narrowly
• nothing more than idiom
• only
• scarcely
• whisker

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barely | American Dictionary

barelyadverb [ not gradable ] us /ˈbeər·li/ Add to word list Add to word list by the smallest amount; only just: There was barely enough room for the two of them. The dark line of the mountains was barely visible against the night sky. (Definition of barely from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of barely

barely He had barely reached twenty when he was exiled and his formal education ended - except for whatever his father taught him. From the Cambridge English Corpus They then proceed with a particular dwelling type, the choice of which, unlike planning antecedents up until the late 1950s, is barely consistent. From the Cambridge English Corpus Barely able to talk, she phones the preschool to tell them she will soon pick up her child. From the Cambridge English Corpus The remainder of the chapter discusses the historical development, provides two case studies on even and barely, and asks further questions. From the Cambridge English Corpus Besides a great mass of formalists - barely interested in actual languages - the ' armchair ' typologists produce slight generalizations based on superficially gathered information. From the Cambridge English Corpus The project of understanding the precise parameters of the role of theory has barely begun. From the Cambridge English Corpus This left co-operative structures fragile, new social agents without resources, and the state's earlier commitment to emancipate the indigenous peasantry barely begun. From the Cambridge English Corpus Combining these abstractions yields a small but highly generic toolkit whose power we have barely begun to explore. From the Cambridge English Corpus The government was prepared to use force and persuasion to implement the reform in regions where state agencies had barely been present before. From the Cambridge English Corpus Some of the ambitions, fears and aspirations of the 1960s, although still within living memory, now seem so distant as to be barely comprehensible. From the Cambridge English Corpus This would amount to a rather ambitious comparative agenda that we have barely begun to explore. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the depressed demographic circumstances of the fifteenth century, custom may barely have existed. From the Cambridge English Corpus But differences of opinion are welcome on a subject on which the dust has barely settled. From the Cambridge English Corpus At this pressure, this is also the shape of the incident pulse, because gas breakdown barely occurs. From the Cambridge English Corpus As so often in premodern comedy, these are stage personae in barely fictionalized roles, their 'character' limited to their servant function. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of barely?

Translations of barely

in Chinese (Traditional) 僅, 剛好, 幾乎沒有… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 仅, 刚好, 几乎没有… See more in Spanish apenas, por poco… See more in Portuguese apenas, mal… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian केवळ, अगदी थोडे या अर्थी… See more かろうじて, わずかに, ほとんど… See more hemen hemen, ancak, sadece… See more à peine, tout juste… See more amb prou feines… See more amper… See more மிகச்சிறிய தொகையால்… See more मात्र… See more માત્ર, સૌથી નાની માત્રા દ્વારા… See more knap, knap nok… See more nätt och jämnt… See more secukupnya… See more kaum… See more knapt, bare så vidt, akkurat… See more بہت کم, محض, مشکل ہی سے… See more тільки, ледве… See more అతి తక్కువగా… See more ক্ষুদ্রতম পরিমাণ দ্বারা… See more sotva… See more hampir tidak… See more เกือบไม่พอ… See more vừa vặn… See more ledwie, ledwo… See more 간신히… See more appena, a mala pena… See more Need a translator?

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