Lexic.us

Definition of Barely

1. Adverb. Only a very short time before. "Would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"

Definition of Barely

1. adv. Without covering; nakedly.

Definition of Barely

1. Adverb. (context: degree) By a small margin. ¹

2. Adverb. (context: degree) Almost not at all. ¹

3. Adverb. (archaic) merely. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Barely

1. scarcely [adv] - See also: scarcely

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barely

Literary usage of Barely

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1890)
"... present sensation, while all mathematical ideas, the ideas of the circle and the square, have ' barely an ideal existence' (Book iv. chap. iv. sec. ..."

2. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"... was with some difficulty that a repetition of the catastrophe of Fort Washington was avoided. Greene had barely Greene barely time, with his 2000 men, ..."

3. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1851)
"I do not know Judge Bee; I have barely thought of him. In fact, a first-rate character is not ... with good dispositions and barely decent qualifications. ..."

4. The Call of the Hen; Or, The Science of the Selection and Breeding of Poultry by National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Recreational Reading, Walter Hogan, Sherman Dickinson, Harry Reynolds Lewis, Raymond William Gregory, Louis Renou, B. K. Hindse, A. V. Leontovich, Arthur John Arberry (1913)
"others barely admitting one finger between these points; while a very few would easily admit the ends of three fingers between the tips of the pelvic bones, ..."

5. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"... did not appear until just before the landing of the Prince of Orange, and the authors barely cleared their expenses, which amounted to nearly 600/. ..."

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